Mark Alarm Text for Translation at Runtime

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Mark Alarm Text for Translation

During project development, you need to mark any alarm text you want change to another language at runtime with a language change indicator.

As of 2018 partial translation of alarm related strings such as "ABC@(DEF)” or “@(ABC)DEF” and multiple markers per sentence such as “@(ABC)DEF@(IJK)” is no longer supported. During compilation, the @ at the beginning of the sentence is accepted and the brackets removed so that the whole sentence will be translated. Any “@(“ encountered in the middle or end of the sentence (anywhere not at the beginning) will trigger a compiler alert message and will be removed.

Note: For alarm related strings the Escape character ^ is removed during compilation. When used immediately preceding a valid translation marker such as ^@(text), it will skip translation and will be removed.

The following table outlines translation marker scenarios and what will happen if:

Scenario	Translated	Display as	Language	Compiler Error message
@(Text)	Yes	Text	In selected language	None
@(Text) some text	No	Text some text	In default language e.g. English	Unsupported syntax for marking translation text, it will not be translated.
Some text @(at the end)	No	Some text at the end	In default language e.g. English	Unsupported syntax for marking translation text, it will not be translated.

Some text @(in the middle) and more	No	Some text in the middle and more	In default language e.g. English	Unsupported syntax for marking translation text, it will not be translated.
@(Text) and @(more text)	No	Text and more text	In default language e.g. English	Unsupported syntax for marking translation text, it will not be translated.
@@(Text)	No	Text	In default language e.g. English	Unsupported syntax for marking translation text, it will not be translated.
@(Text @ Text)	Yes	Text @ Text	In selected language	None Note: @ by itself is regarded as a normal character, translation marker requires @ to be immediately followed by ( and a ) to follow later. The string will appear in the local language DBFs as “Text @Text”. Double layers of translation markers are invalid.