You have been subscribed to a public bug: In launchpad translations, when the original text starts with whitespaces, launchpad will show something like:
En: ·--help-xxx foo bar… ···········The xxx help printed is formatted in… [i] · represents a space character. Enter a space in the equivalent position in the translation. Unfortunately, non-leading/trailing spaces are still discarded by the browser, since they are not transformed to the circles. Additionally, this is not enabled for suggestions. (There are supposed to be 2 spaces before 'foo'.) Suggestion ---------- <stylesheet for translators: https://userstyles.org/styles/124565> 1. Use monospace fonts for all translation strings 2. Use `white-space: pre;` rule to deal with whitespaces effortlessly. 3. Remove the spaces-as-images feature. The newlines look fine to me (so far). You might want to change the rest too: a. Perhaps add an explicit end-of-string marker like a red paragraph- sign or a red dollar-sign. b. If you still want to emphasize spaces (you definitely want to), consider using some grey/ blue/green/whatever '·' characters, but please make sure it does not break alignment (i.e. one-col-wide). c. There is a unicode 'Enter' character for newlines, but it doesn't have wide support in fonts. Consider going Vim-ish and using a yellow dollar-sign, or just keep using the enter image (the absense of spaces-replacements makes it look lonely though.) Rationale --------- Column-level alignment has always been an important thing for translation, especially for CLI apps, which are quite common in the FOSS word that lp currently handles. As a translator who does care about this, I believe the changes done in my stylesheet should be applied globally, using a wiser implementation. The circles almost never work well -- to me it's a mis-feature. ** Affects: ubuntu-translations Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Tags: lp-translations -- successive whitespaces removed by browser, messes up CLI formatting https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1548128 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Translations Coordinators, which is subscribed to Ubuntu Translations. _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-translations-coordinators Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-translations-coordinators More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
