About Language Pair settings
A language pair is used to store settings relating to translation from a specific source language into a specific target language. Resources and options are typically configured for use across all language pairs to which they apply. Multilingual resources, such as termbases and server-based translation memories, may apply to more than one language pair. Bilingual resources, such as file-based translation memories, only apply to a specific language pair.
Settings that you can define are:
- Which translation memories, automated translation servers, AutoSuggest dictionaries and termbases are used. Also what settings are applied to these translation resources.
- Batch processing options.
Specifying settings
For example, you can change the default fuzzy matching threshold to 65% at the All Language Pairs level and it will apply to all translation memories for all language pairs. However, if you want English to German to use a different fuzzy matching threshold, you can change it at the individual language pairs level to 75%.
The following video shows an example of this:
Selecting translation memories and Automated Translation servers
In SDL Trados Studio, you typically select translation memories at the All Language Pairs level. Those translation memories are then used for every language pair they contain. However, you may want to specify translation memory selections at the individual language pair level as an exception if you want to:
- Use different translation memories.
- Change the order of the translation memories in the cascade.
- Use different settings for lookups, updates or concordance searching in a translation memory.
For example, suppose you add a multilingual server-based translation memory at the All Language Pairs level that contains English to German and English to French language pairs. However, you do not want to use this translation memory for English to French and instead want to select another translation memory. To do that, select the translation memory that you want to use at the individual language pair settings instead of the All Language Pairs level.