September 2013

  • Understanding how to Work with Bi-Directionality (BiDi) Text

    Placeholder Icon

    I’m a native Hebrew Speaker. Hebrew, as well as Arabic and several other languages, is a Right-to-Left (abbreviated ‘RTL’) language, meaning that it is written from Right to Left. Translators and other content creators working with bidirectionality (abbreviated ‘BiDi’) content – i.e. text containing both Left-to-Right (abbreviated ‘LTR’) and Right-to-Left characters and segments – are…

    Read More

  • Analyzing Files in SDL Studio

    Placeholder Icon

    One common complaint that experienced users of SDL Trados and some users coming from other tools have after switching to SDL Studio is that getting the file analysis statistics is complicated, slow, and cumbersome. On the occasion of the upcoming release of Studio 2014 I thought to share the method I use for analyzing files…

    Read More