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XML Entities

Use the XML Entity conversion settings to specify how the SDL Trados Studio editor displays character entities to translators. If a character entity is selected for conversion, Studio displays the character during translation, then re-encodes the character into its entity reference form, which it inserts into the translated file.

Example: if the character entity is >, the translator sees the character >, and the translated character is encoded as entity >.

If a character entity is not selected for conversion, the entity reference (>) is displayed rather than the character (>).

The Entity conversion page has two panes: Entity Conversion and Entity Mappings.

Entity Conversion

BoxDescription
Convert Entities

Select this check box to enable entity conversion. If you clear this box, Studio does not convert entities in the documents processed with your XML file type.

This option is enabled by default in Studio 2014 SP2 and later.

Advanced

Click this button to display the

Advanced XML Entity Settings dialog box where you can specify when characters are converted between entity representation and character representation.

The list of entity sets has the following columns.

Entity Mappings

The lower pane displays the entities in an entity set, along with their character and Unicode equivalents. It also lets you add, remove and edit these character entities.

To prevent a character entity from being converted, clear the associated check box.

If you add or edit an entity, the corresponding entity set is flagged as being default rather than custom.
BoxDescription
Add

Click to add an entity to the set. The Add Entity Mapping dialog box is displayed.

Edit

Select an entity name and click this to edit the entity mapping. The Edit Entity Mapping dialog box is displayed.

Remove

Select an entity name and click this to remove the entity from the entity set.

Reset

Click to reset all the entities in this entity set to their default settings.

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