[02:32] <Wuzzy> hi, I have a problem with translation in launchpad. In the original string, there are 13 spaces at the end. The translated string only needs 6 spaces. But no matter how many spaces I add in my translation, launchpad _always_ appends 13 spaces to the translation. How do I get rid of this behaviour?
[03:20] <wgrant> Wuzzy: It's not possible to make such translations in the web UI; leading and trailing whitespace is normalized to match the English string, as that's almost always the right thing to do. Why do you need a different number of spaces?
[03:21] <Wuzzy> Because I am translating an ncurses application in which the number of spaces matters.
[03:21] <wgrant> Hm, I'd expect the application to implement the padding itself.
[03:21] <Wuzzy> Yeah I know, this sucks.
[03:22] <wgrant> Having it embedded in the strings seems somewhat fragile, as it will break all the translations if they need to widen a column by a single character!
[03:22] <Wuzzy> Yeah I know this sucks.
[03:23] <Wuzzy> okay then I have to bother the developers of the application instead ... lol
[03:24] <wgrant> Heh, yeah :/
[03:25] <wgrant> But normalizing whitespace is usually the sensible thing to do; translators have a bad habit of missing trailing spaces in particular.
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