Acronyms and URLs
A translation memory (TM) can handle acronyms and URLs as recognized tokens.
The effect of enabling recognition of acronyms and URLs
If you configure a TM to recognize acronyms and URLs, the TM treats each acronym or URL as a single word.
Unlike the way SDL Trados Studio handles other recognized tokens, such as variables, Trados Studio does not substitute acronyms or URLs.
For example:
- If a TU contains a URL, Trados Studio finds a match if the presented text has the same URL.
- If there is no match, the TM does not translate the segment, but recognize the presence of the acronym in the source, and then adds an annotation to the text file. When the translator opens the file in the Translation Editor, the editor displays the acronym text as a recognized token.
Prerequisites for acronym recognition
If a TM has acronym recognition enabled, Trados Studio recognizes a term as acronym if all the following are true:
- The length is between one and five characters, inclusive.
- The first and last characters are uppercase letters.
- The characters between the first and last letter are letters or the ampersand (&).