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186 Naotaka Kato and Makoto ArisawaThe original English CATNls files are located in the following directory.B15\intel_a\resource\msgcatalogThe B15 folder is located in the installation directory of the program. The translatedJapanese PII files would then be located in the following directory.B15\intel_a\resource\msgcatalog\JapaneseThe PII files with the ID tags will replace the files in these two directories. Abouteight thousand PII files (CATNls files) for each language have to be replaced. Itis necessary to replace the original English files so as to identify the hard-codedstrings. If we replace both the original and the target PII files and the applicationthen displays in the GUI any strings without ID tags, it means that those stringsdid not come from any PII files, and therefore shows that the string is hard-coded.Such strings reside in the program code, not in the PII files.After the replacement of the PII files, the example keys, key1, key2, and key3,now include ID tags, as shown below.English:Japanese:key1=“(E7d245.7)Link Manager1”;key2=“(E7d245.8)Link Manager2”;key3=“(E7d245.9)Link Manager3”;key1=“(J7d240.7) 1”;key2=“(J7d240.8) 2”;key3=“(J7d240.9) 3”;We will explain the prefix structure in Section 5.3. In the above examples of tags inparentheses, the “E” means English, “7” means Release 17, “d” means the fourthbuild of the ID tag, “245” means file number 245 in the English PII files, “240”means the file number 240 in the Japanese PII files, and the “7”, “8”, and “9” afterthe period signify the line numbers in the PII files. The file number of Japaneseis smaller than that of English. This is because large software may have a scope oftranslation. Some part of large software may remain in original English language.As shown in Fig. 1, the tagged files come from the system PII files, not from thefiles from Translation Services Center. Some English files may not be passed toTranslation Services Center if those are out of a translation scope.5.2 PII ID tag formatFig. 5 shows a GUI display from CATIA showing the PII with ID tags. The ID tag(J7d7062.23) appears in front of the string “ ”. The “J7d” is a prefix with an