Backslashes in some ISA messages
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	Amire80
	Jan 23 2022, 12:24 PM

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Some ISA translatable messages have backslashes in the end. It's a pretty typical Gettext issue :)

Here's a list of messages with backslashes that I could find:

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Subject	Repo	Branch	Lines +/-
Remove unnecessary space from the end of a message	labs/tools/Isa	main	+4 -4
Backslashes in some ISA messages	labs/tools/Isa	main	+119 -92
Backslashes in some ISA messages	labs/tools/Isa	m2c	+135 -94

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Mentioned In: rLTIS76500bc8ce93: Remove unnecessary space from the end of a message
rLTIS27ffc5f58411: Backslashes in some ISA messages
T300982: Texts modifications - feedback notes from translators

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Amire80 created this task.Jan 23 2022, 12:24 PM

Amire80 added a project: I18n.

Ata subscribed.Feb 7 2022, 11:43 AM

• Nikerabbit mentioned this in T300982: Texts modifications - feedback notes from translators.Mar 1 2022, 12:20 PM

This appears to happen when a message end in a space. Both source and translated messages look fine (no backslashes). Is this an issue with Translatewiki?

Sebastian_Berlin-WMSE moved this task from Backlog to In progress on the ISA board.Apr 4 2022, 3:15 PM

Translatewiki.net does not support trailing whitespace in messages. The backslashes are a workaround to preserve them, but preferably all the surrounding whitespace is not in the messages but in the code.

Happy birthday, @Nikerabbit's last comment :)

Can this be fixed in the code, please? I saw that there's an upcoming event where some people will translate ISA, so it would be nice to make it as comfortable as possible for the volunteers. It should be a trivial thing to fix.

Thanks! <3

... An addition: if a message needs space in the beginning or in the end for a technical, the message itself should probably be changed. I suspect that this is the case with "Campaign - ". If the current code concatenates a campaign name or ID to the end of this message, it should be changed from concatenation to putting the campaign into the message as a parameter.