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XML Writer

The XML Writer settings specify the UTF-8 BOM and xml:lang attributes in the target file.

Unicode UTF-8 Byte Order Mark

You can choose when the SDL file support software should insert a UTF-8 Byte Order Mark (BOM) in the target document.

xml:lang attribute values
Change matching source language to target language

For example: If the source language is English and the target language is French, selecting this option changes all occurrences of:

xml:lang="en-US" in the source file

to:

xml:lang="fr-FR" in the target file.

Always change to target language

For example: If the source language is English and the target language is French, selecting this option changes all occurrences of:

xml:lang="..." in the source file

to:

xml:lang="fr-FR" in the target file.

Do not change

xml:lang attribute values are not changed

SDL Trados Studio does not support generic language tags for the xml:lang attribute. You need to specify the language and the country subtag (for example, fr-FR).

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