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About Recognition Settings

Recognition settings in a translation memory specify whether to identify elements that do not change during translation. If enabled, SDL Trados Studio recognizes designated elements and treats them as recognized tokens during translation. These items include variables, dates, times, numbers, measurements and acronyms. These elements can either be transferred directly from the current source segment to the new target segment or automatically converted to the correct target language format. For example, you can auto-localize date and time elements to the correct target language format. Variables are identified by a customized list you can create in the language resource template for your translation memory.