How to get Unicode text in markers (FM9)

[Mueller, Klaus]

Hello Wim, 

There's no difference between FM8 and FM9 regarding 
the encoding - both versions are using Unicode for the 
internal character encoding.
Whether Trados uses Unicode or FrameRoman encoding 
for the MIF output depends on the source MIF version 
(7 -> FrameRoman, 8 -> Unicode).

> Would you know what happens with the marker texts 
> if the file is resaved (from FM9) into FM7 MIF?

Unicode marker text (other than CP1252) is always 
converted question marks.
So this process also requires the conversion of the 
marker text to body text and back.

Body text is only converted from Unicode to FrameRoman
if valid virtual fonts are applied (e.g. Arial CYR).
Unicode chars with e.g. Arial will be converted to 
question marks when saving as MIF7.

(I attached a new version of the script.)

Kind regards, 
Klaus Müller, itl AG


-----Original Message-----
From: framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Wim Hooghwinkel - idtp
Sent: Thursday, May 20, 2010 10:10 AM
To: mueller23 at web.de; framers at lists.frameusers.com
Subject: RE: How to get Unicode text in markers (FM9)

Hello Klaus,

Unfortunately retranslating with FM9 files is not an option now. But apart
from that, I had the same problem with translated FM9 files for another
project. Somehow Trados doesn't create Unicode MIF output. May be that's the
drawback of using <MIFFile 8.00>, Trados did not update the tools to the FM9
character encodings. Or is there some setting required (S-Tagger or Trados)
to keep Unicode in the translated files? Trados itself can produce Unicode
output, somewhere in the conversion back to MIF this gets converted to (old)
FrameMaker character encodings.

I manually used the procedure you describe. But indeed for my current
project there are hundreds of Index markers so a manual copy-paste etc is
not an option. I didn't think of IxGen yet, I used to have a license but
have not used it for a long time. 

Thanks for the script, I'll try it out!

Would you know what happens with the marker texts if the file is resaved
(from FM9) into FM7 MIF?


Kind regards, vriendelijke groet,
Wim Hooghwinkel
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