About Multilingual Projects

When you create a new project in Lingo, you can select source and target languages on the first page of the Start New Project Wizard. In previous versions, you could only select one target language. However, you can now select multiple target languages.

1. In the Source Language drop-down, select the original language that is used in the project you are translating. Make sure this language matches the source exactly. For example, you might select English (en) here, but the source files are actually in the English United States (en-us) language. Therefore, you should instead select English United States in this field.

2. In the Target Languages grid, select the language(s) that you want to use for the translation and click to move it to the Selected Languages grid. If you need to remove a language from the Selected Languages grid, click .

   Example

   Example

   If your project needs to be translated into French, Italian, and Spanish, select these three languages from the Target Languages grid, then click .

   

   Selecting a target language also accomplishes the following:

   • Spell Check This affects the language that is used for spell checking. If you are working with a multilingual project, the language of the file is used for spell checking.
   • Find and Replace If you are working with a multilingual project, the language selected in the File List is used for find and replace.

For more information about creating a project in Lingo, see Creating New Projects.

In addition to creating new projects using multiple languages, you can also find options to switch between languages in the following areas in Lingo:

• Bundles Send files in a specific language or in all languages for translation. See Preparing Translation Bundles.
• Compute Statistics Calculate statistics to see how many segments are translated for a specific language, or for all languages. See Computing Statistics.
• Export Finished Translation Export the final translation for any language to Flare or to a ZIP file. See Exporting Translated Projects.

• File List Set the language for each topic or file you are translating. This is the default language for translations that you add to translation memory, new termbase terms, find and replace searches. See File List Window Pane and Translating Files.

• Project Editor Add or remove languages to the project at any time, and set the language for which statistics will be compiled. See Project Editor and Computing Statistics.
• QA Reports Run quality assurance reports for files in a specific language, or run reports on all files. See Running Quality Assurance Reports.
• Reviews Send files in a specific language or in all languages for review. See Sending Translated Content for Review.