Lingo failing to import TBX termbase with Chinese terms
Posted: Fri Jul 08, 2022 4:05 am
I am trying to import a multilingual termbase into Lingo. The termbase was originally created using RWS (ex-SDL) MultiTerm. I have managed to convert it into TBX-Basic, but Lingo won't import it. From the import message log I could see that some concept entries imported OK but others didn't, and I narrowed it down to the problem entries being those which include Chinese terms. I tested that conclusion by manually editing the .tbx file in Notepad++, removing all the <langSet xml:lang="zh">...</langSet> language-level entries. Lingo managed to import that edited .tbx file with no errors.
There's an old post on this forum where someone else had problems importing a TBX-Basic file including Chinese (viewtopic.php?f=40&t=15515&p=103466), but no-one could say why there was a problem and what the solution might be.
The xml for the Chinese terms looks the same as the xml for the terms in other languages so I'm guessing it's some sort of character encoding issue.
There's an old post on this forum where someone else had problems importing a TBX-Basic file including Chinese (viewtopic.php?f=40&t=15515&p=103466), but no-one could say why there was a problem and what the solution might be.
The xml for the Chinese terms looks the same as the xml for the terms in other languages so I'm guessing it's some sort of character encoding issue.