Wordfast Pro 4 does not accept TMs exported from Trados | Looks like Trados introduces rubbish on purpose?

Forum: Wordfast support
Topic: Wordfast Pro 4 does not accept TMs exported from Trados
Poster: Heinrich Pesch
Post title: Looks like Trados introduces rubbish on purpose?

[quote]John Di Rico wrote:

Dear Tania,

I had a problem importing a Trados TMX the other day and was quite frustrated as well. In the end, I imported it with WFP3. If you have a WFP license, you can download, install and license both WFP3 and WFP4 on the same computer.

WFP3 indicates what the problem was: several invalid XML characters that usually start with .

I opened the TMX with a plain text editor and replaced those characters with what they should represent (usually apostrophes, quotes, hypens or dashes).

I was then able to import into WFP3 and 4.

I submitted development tickets to fix this issue so that these TUs are automatically fixed (if possible) or they are ignored and the TU is skipped.

Hope this helps, kind regards,

John

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I remember from 15 years ago when Microsoft introduced non standard code into htm-code so Netscape would not be able to display the page correctly. Perhaps Trados has taken up this tradition?