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Define language.

Posted by elfi at 2012-01-27 19:02

Hi, I was wondering why the available options for "default language" are so limited. I need to define the language used in tiers, for example Spanish, which is not included in the list. Is there a solution for this?<br>Thanks, <br>E.<br>

Re: Define language.

Posted by aarsom at 2012-01-30 17:22

Defining a default language on a tier doesn't refer to or say anything about the actual language spoken on that tier. It is only used to set the input language method for that tier. To use other languages, you can use KeyMan for windows.

- Aarthy.

Re: Re: Define language.

Posted by elfi at 2012-01-31 15:58

Hi, I'm working on a translation project and it is important to define explicitly the language used in every tier so that I can further process my corpus according to source-language, target-language 1, target language 2 etc. I need that information to be present in my final .xml files. Just yesterday I realized that options included in the list (tier attributes) are not the same in every computer, so they have to do with some other setting of each computer. How could I include more languages in that list?
Thanks for your interest,
E.

Re: Re: Re: Define language.

Posted by aarsom at 2012-02-03 11:30

The language attribute of a tier should be not used for this purpose. There has a been a request for having a separate attribute for this purpose and it is now our "user request list". A work around for this process you can have different linguistic types for the source-language and target-language 1 and for another language and use that information for further analyzing/processing the xml files.

- Aarthy.