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Re: Converting American English to British English
Subject:Re: Converting American English to British English From:"T. Word Smith" <techwordsmith -at- yahoo -dot- com> To:TECHWR-L <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Sun, 22 Feb 2004 14:40:58 -0800 (PST)
I bet you could do a simple find > replace. You got
the U thing, and the spanner?wrench thing, and an s?c
thing ... but, unless you have an inches?centimeter
thing (which is a whole nuther ball of wax), you
should be good to go.
If you're in Word, maybe you can automate this with
VBA, or if FrameMaker, using a FrameScript, etc.
--- "Van Laan, Krista" <KVanlaan -at- verisign -dot- com> wrote:
>
> Does anyone know of a cheap, nonhuman way to review
> content for localizing
> American English to UK English? I'm hoping for
> something like those online
> translators that take your input and turn it into
> another language. I need
> to use it on a number of files, though.
What issues are you running into, exactly?
=====
T.
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