Useful Tips for Regex with SDL Trados (QA Checker)

 

Language-Specific Regex for SDL Trados QA Checker/Find&Replace

1. Replace the date format in Chinese content.

In Chinese, we tend to prefer 年（year）月（month）日（date） to show date. So for certain dates, we would like to write 2020/10/09 as 2020年10月9日. The first one is to identify these unchanged dates in target content and replace them.

Regular Expression：(\d\d\d\d|\d\d)\/(\d\d|\d)\/(\d\d|\d)

Replace:$1年$2月$3日

2. From English to Chinese, sometimes, numbers are expressed as k/m/b. However, that’s not the case in Chinese. We tend to use 万（10k）百万（m）千万（10m）亿（100m）

The following expressions will send a warning while detected m/k/b numbers in Chinese for a doublecheck.

Regular Expression: (\d{1,}[k|K])|(\d{1,}[m|M]|\d{1,}[b|B])

3. This Regex is to identify the English punctuation marks in Chinese content, and sends a warning when verifying translation.

Regular Expression: [.,?!:“”?]

4. Aovid repetition punctuations

Regular Expression: (?!？！)([。？！?!，]|\\.\\.\\.|……)+

Replace: $1

After:

5. This Regex is to check the use of the Chinese word of “的”, “得” and “地” which is used differently based on the word combination.

a) For Regex101 please use

\x{7684}|\x{5730}|\x{5f97}

b) For Trados Regex please use

\u7684|\u5730|\u5f97