Sometimes my clients send me references materials as “Translation memories” in Excel files. Usually, it will be pretty simple files with column A being the source and B the target translation. If you work with such files and want to…
Review Trados TMX or Wordfast Translation Memories With Olifant
If you work with Trados or Wordfast regularly and with different translation memories depending on the project. You may want to do a bit of clean up and check your translation memories occasionally. The problem is that these software, especially…
Accented Letters or Japanese Characters Appearing Garbled in Software (XBench, Notepad++…)
I came across the problem a couple of times in my career as a freelance translator: I am working with a Japanese OS, but I mostly write in French (and its accented letters) as it is the language I translate…