You should also warn about strings that, translated, end and begin with a whitespace but the original string does not.
On Sat, 2009-05-16 at 18:19 +0200, Chusslove Illich wrote: > Some whitespace checks added in this run. > > One is to warn when the original text ends with space after a colon (e.g. > "Difficulty: ") and the translation misses the trailing space. In English > the trailing space is significant here, preventing that what follows the > label sticks to it. But this check alone produces 600+ warnings, and it may > be that in some languages the trailing space really should be removed (CJK > comes to mind), or is simply too unimportant a detail. > > There is a similar check for leading space too, except that it triggers no > matter what character follows the space, because this is rarely a mistake > and usually significant in original (unlike the mostly superfluous trailing > space when not following the colon). But it may still be insignificant in > some languages. > > So I've made it that, at the moment, only explicitly listed languages are > checked for matching outer whitespace to original. Whoever wants into this > list, tell. > > _______________________________________________ > Wesnoth-i18n mailing list > Wesnoth-i18n@gna.org > https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/wesnoth-i18n _______________________________________________ Wesnoth-i18n mailing list Wesnoth-i18n@gna.org https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/wesnoth-i18n
