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August 4, 2016
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FM2015 THAI texts only show in question marks

  • August 4, 2016
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Hi,

I have a FM2015 book which has been translated into THAI language. The THAI book has been worked on by a service provider in Thailand, now that I am opening the files on my comupter the whole text is just in question marks. The font is installed. I have a former version of that document as FM10 book, which, once I open it with FM2015, is just fine. Same font. Any ideas?

Thanks a lot

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Legend
August 4, 2016

What did you send to the LSP? FM or MIF? If you sent MIF, open the MIF you sent them in a Unicode plain text editor (like Notepad++ or UltraEdit) and check the first line. If it's MIF 7 you're out of the Unicode world and will have to run the files through translation again with MIFs properly created from FM 2015.

If you send FM, check the files you got back from the LSP. They might have created the MIFs from the FM with an outdated "Save all files in book as MIF" plugin that still creates MIF7. This is the most common problem.

Ask the LSP to send you MIFs instead of FMs. Then check version in the MIF header. Compare it with the header of a MIF that you created from FM 2015 (via save as MIF). It's very likely that the problem came up at some point in the process when saving as MIF.

Also, open in the MIFs in a Unicode text editor (e.g. Notepad++), scroll to the end of the MIFs and check if the text is shown as Thai or as question marks. If it's question marks, you will have to restart the process with proper FM 2015 MIFs.

Also please check with your LSP which CAT tool they use (SDL Trados Studio, Across, memoQ etc.) and if the version of their CAT tool is compatible with FM 2015. All latest versions of the "big" CAT tools like SDL Trados Studio, Across, memoQ can handle FM 2015.

Jeff_Coatsworth
Community Expert
Community Expert
August 4, 2016

?Are you sure the translator used the same font as you? Because it sure sounds like they didn't & you don't have that font...

Participant
August 4, 2016

Yeah, pretty sure (although I asked the service provider to send me the fonts, but time delay & deadline ...).
It just seems "broken", there is no change in how it's displayed if I assign another font or copy some of that text in the (correctly displayed) older document version ... it is still just question marks.

Jeff_Coatsworth
Community Expert
Community Expert
August 4, 2016

?What about saving a "question-mark" doc as MIF and having a look at the font info?