Translation simulation helps the user to check whether a localized application can display and work with localized text correctly.

The translation simulator generates values of string and text resources using a predefined symbol or symbols from the codepage of a target language. The simulator can also make a string longer. The settings for the simulator are customized on the Simulation page in the Project Properties dialog.

Simulation modes:

• Replace characters by target language code page characters – simulate translation by replacing characters of a source string with random characters from the codepage of the target language.
• Replace characters by specified characters – simulate translation by replacing characters of a source string with a symbol specified in the Replace character field.

Expand text – expand the string length by adding extra symbols. The length of a string in this option is the number of symbols in a string.

Expand percentage – enter the percent value to expand a string.

Expand character – enter the character to add to a string to expand its length.

last character – enter the character to finish a string.

Convert to upper case – convert a created string to upper-case.

Sample – a sample of simulated translation. The English text field shows source text, while the Target text field shows simulated translation

In the Simulation mode, you can add "-simul" to the file name using the <SimSuffix> tag.

Once simulated data is generated, it is stored together with translation in a localization project. Generation of simulation data and entry into the Simulation mode have no impact on the translation you made earlier. The program displays simulation data when you enter the Simulation mode and displays translated values when you switch to the Normal mode.