Extension	.resx or .resw
Smartling Identifier	resx
Resources	Microsoft Resx Resources

String Instructions

Smartling automatically captures RESX comments and makes them translator instructions.

XML

<data name="resx_string6" xml:space="preserve">
     <value>resx string6 has a comment.</value>
     <comment>comment for manual resx string6 will appear as a Smartling translator instruction</comment>
</data>

XML Characters

The following XML character are always escaped. You can control this by using the entity_escaping directive.

Character (character name)	Escape sequence
< (less-than)	<
> (greater-than)	>
& (ampersand)	&
' (apostrophe or single quote)	'
" (double-quote)	"

Directives

File directives are supported, both inline and via our API.

If you are applying processing directives to a RESX file, the directive should be inserted as a comment just below the XML declaration, or within the <root> tag. Alternatively, you can apply file processing directives via the API.

For example:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!-- smartling.placeholder_format_custom = \{.+?\} -->
<root>

Inline File Format

API Parameter

smartling.[directive_name] = [value]

Here are examples of supported directives for RESX:

Control Content For Translation

Directive	sltrans
Values	TRANSLATE NOTRANSLATE (case-insensitive)
Smartling Translate Supported	Yes
Description	Use this directive to enable or disable processing of translation strings in the file. You must turn translation back on once you're done with notranslate. Any content with this tag will not appear in the Smartling dashboard, but will appear in your translated file in your original source language.
Examples	<!-- smartling.sltrans = notranslate --> Strings below this directive will be captured as strings, but excluded from translation. <!-- smartling.sltrans = translate --> Strings below this directive will be translated.

Escape Base Characters

Directive	entity_escaping
Values	auto (default) true yes false no (case-insensitive)
Smartling Translate Supported	Yes
Description	Controls whether base characters ( > < & " ) are "escaped" into entities when delivering translations. This can be set universally for the whole file via API, or by setting the directive at the top/start of the file. The directive can also be placed inline to control the behavior of specific strings.
Examples	For example, your translation might look like this: `This is an <hr> & " example string4` By default, using the "auto" setting, we will assume this is HTML from the <hr> tag. When the translated file is downloaded, the translated string will be escaped as: `This is an <hr> & " example string4` Using <!-- smartling.entity_escaping = false --> will allow is above string to appear unescaped.

Escape Characters the Same as Source

Directive	entity_escaping_strategy
Values	propagate \| none
Smartling Translate Supported	Yes
Description	Used to retain entity escaping for all non-base entities. For example, normally we turn © into © but if we use this new directive the translation will automatically update to use escaping from the source. For each entity character, we'll check to see if it was escaped in the source and try to match (propagate) it in the target. The default is none which is the current behavior, which recognizes HTML4 entities only - if HTML5 entities are required as well, you must use the entity_escaping_type=propagate directive. propagate will only affect non-base entities - all named entities except & , ", <, > . Base entities continue to be controlled by HTML detection and the entity_escaping directive. If the same character is both escaped and unescaped in the same string, propagate will return the characters in the translation escaped in the same order as they were in the source. However, if there are a different number of characters in the translation where the translation process removed or added some and the escaping is inconsistent among them, propagate will escape all entities for that character. This does not affect source content at all - so using it will not result in new strings. Numerical entities are not considered at all with this directive, and are treated normally.
Examples	<!-- smartling.entity_escaping_strategy = propagate --> If the same character is both escaped and unescaped in the same string, propagate will return the characters in the translation escaped in the same order as they were in the source. However, if there are a different number of characters in the translation where the translation process removed or added some and the escaping is inconsistent among them, propagate will escape all entities for that character. This does not affect source content at all - so using it will not result in new strings. propagate will only affect non-base entities - all named entities except & , ", <, >. Base entities continue to be controlled by HTML detection and the entity_escaping directive.

Unescape HTML5

Directive	entity_escaping_type
Values	html4 (default)\|html5 (case-insensitive)
Smartling Translate Supported	Yes
Description	By default, all html4 entities are unescaped, except the basic set: < > & ". When this directive is set to html5, all html5 entities will be unescaped as well. If you choose to set this directive to html5, you must also use the entity_escaping_strategy=propagate directive
Examples	<!-- smartling.entity_escaping_type = html5 -->

Standard Placeholder Format

Directive	placeholder_format
Values	NONE; C; IOS; PYTHON; JAVA; YAML; QT, RESX
Description	Used to specify a standard placeholder format.
Smartling Translate Supported	Yes
Examples	<!-- smartling.placeholder_format = IOS --> Specifies iOS-style placeholders for the file.

Custom Placeholder Format

Directive	placeholder_format_custom
Values	1) Custom Java regular expression. 2) NONE - disables any current custom placeholders
Smartling Translate Supported	Yes
Description	Specifies a custom placeholder format. Any text in your file matching the regular expression you provide will be captured as a placeholder.
Examples	<!-- smartling.placeholder_format_custom = REGEX--> <!-- smartling.placeholder_format_custom=\{([^}]+)\} --> Any characters surrounded by curly brackets, e.g., {first name}, will be treated as a placeholder.

See Placeholders in Resource Files for more on placeholders.

Pseudo Translation

Directives	pseudo_inflation
Values	integer - Accepted values are 0 - 100
Description	Sets the percentage by which original strings are inflated when downloading pseudo translations. If this directive is not set, pseudo translations are 30 percent longer than the original strings.
Examples	<!-- smartling.pseudo_inflation = 80 --> Downloaded pseudo translations will increase the length of original strings by 80 percent.

Trim Whitespace

Directive	whitespace_trim
Values	on\|yes\|true or off\|no\|false or leading\|trailing The default value is on.
Smartling Translate Supported	Yes
Description	A whitespace is any character or series of characters that represent horizontal or vertical space in typography. When rendered, a whitespace character is not a visible mark, but does occupy an area or space on a page. Although whitespaces are necessary within a string (typically to separate words), unnecessary whitespaces can be found at the start of a string (leading) and at the end of a string (trailing). With this directive, you can trim whitespaces, as it enables or disables whitespace trim management for the ingested strings. Whitespace is optionally trimmed from content then re-inserted on download for convenience so that translators do not have to manage the extra spaces. However, content owners may want to retain surrounding whitespace so that translators can manipulate it during translation. By default, the leading and trailing whitespaces are trimmed. You can choose to disable trimming or specify trimming for leading or trailing whitespaces. The directive can only be used as the API request parameter.
Examples	<!-- smartling.whitespace_trim=on --> Smartling will trim leading and trailing whitespaces (default) <!-- smartling.whitespace_trim=off --> Smartling will not trim leading or trailing whitespaces <!-- smartling.whitespace_trim=leading --> Smartling will trim only leading whitespaces <!-- smartling.whitespace_trim=trailing --> Smartling will trim only trailing whitespaces