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This 100% match isn't a 100% match...   Message List  
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RE: [OmT] This 100% match isn't a 100% match...

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>From: OmegaT@yahoogroups.com [mailto:OmegaT@yahoogroups.com]On Behalf Of
Samuel Murray (Ugchelen)
>Sent: Monday, July 13, 2009 7:00 PM
>To: OmegaT@yahoogroups.com
>Subject: Re: [OmT] This 100% match isn't a 100% match...
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>Didier Briel wrote:
>
>>> Is this a bug?
>
>> It depends on the definition (of a bug).
>>
>> Not really, I would say, since it does what is expected.
>
>Expected by whom, though?

Expected by the one who wrote the software.
(And it's not me, in this specific case.)

Didier
Mon Jul 13, 2009 5:29 pm

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I have this source segment: June 24, 2009 And I have configured OmegaT to insert 100% matches automatically. However, I have this segment in a TM: June 4, 2008... 		robertobech
Offline Send Email 		Jul 13, 2009
2:33 pm

... No, it is not. ... OmegaT used to do only 3 a long time ago, then we decided that it was not practical and made it do 2 (ie, ignore tags, numbers, ...
Jean-Christophe Helary
jc_helary
Offline Send Email 		Jul 13, 2009
2:39 pm

... Jean-Christophe Helary ... I think we should rather differentiate (both in terminology and technically) between a 100% match and an exact match. An exact...
Didier Briel
didier_briel
Offline Send Email 		Jul 13, 2009
2:51 pm

... robertobech ... As you see yourself, it *is* a 100% match. What it isn't is a "repetition" (to use Trados terminology), i.e., the same exact segment....
Didier Briel
didier_briel
Offline Send Email 		Jul 13, 2009
2:43 pm

... What about using the third % as a base to do that ? Jean-Christophe Helary ... http://mac4translators.blogspot.com/...
Jean-Christophe Helary
jc_helary
Offline Send Email 		Jul 13, 2009
2:48 pm

... Expected by whom, though? The number "100" as a percentage seems to communicate to the user that something is "the same" or "exactly" as the other thing....
Samuel Murray (Ugchel...
lacialacia
Offline Send Email 		Jul 13, 2009
5:01 pm

... Samuel Murray (Ugchelen) ... Expected by the one who wrote the software. (And it's not me, in this specific case.) Didier...
Didier Briel
didier_briel
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5:29 pm

... I agree....
robertobech
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9:17 pm

... Samuel Murray (Ugchelen) ... As I suspected, relying on the #3 match wouldn't be enough. I have under the eyes a 100/100/100% match where the...
Didier Briel
didier_briel
Offline Send Email 		Jul 14, 2009
1:04 pm

... I may have said it on that occasion, but Wordfast gives its users the option to report a 100% match as 99% if there is a difference in case, punctuation or...
Samuel Murray (Ugchel...
lacialacia
Offline Send Email 		Jul 14, 2009
1:11 pm

... I would be for just having "100%" mean "extact". No matter the rationale to explain a "100% match", for the user it is just confusing to see a "100%" not...
Yves Savourel
yves_savourel
Offline Send Email 		Jul 14, 2009
1:15 pm

I've been working with lots of files that have 100% matches on the TM, but I just can't trust OmegaT to this regard. The way it handles 100% matches, I'm...
robertobech
Offline Send Email 		Jul 15, 2009
10:59 am

... If you want OmegaT to handle exact matches as exact matches, merge your "safe" TMXs as project_save.tmx and open the project. Anything that is not...
Jean-Christophe Helary
jc_helary
Offline Send Email 		Jul 15, 2009
1:02 pm

Thanks for the tip, Jean, I'll try it....
robertobech
Offline Send Email 		Jul 15, 2009
8:06 pm

Wouldn't it be safer to include a few lines of code to perform an exact-match test on the segment and TU if the initial match routine reports 100%, otherwise...
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hhhmadrid
Offline Send Email 		Jul 16, 2009
8:07 am
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