Wordfast Translation Memory

The Wordfast format, as used by the Wordfast translation tool, is a simple tab delimited file.

The storage format can read and write Wordfast TM files.

Conformance

• Escaping – The format correctly handles Wordfast &'XX; escaping and will unescape and escape seamlessly.

• Soft-breaks – these are not managed and are left as escaped

• Replaceables – these are not managed

• Header – Only basic updating and reading of the header is implemented

• Tab-separated value (TSV) – the format correctly handles the TSV format used by Wordfast. There is no quoting, Windows newlines are used and the \t is used as a delimiter (see issue 472)