Weblate: Leading spaces in source/translation strings

[Krzmbrzl]

Describe the issue
When having a source String like > test (note the multiple leading spaces - the ">" is only predent to prevent GitHub from eating the spaces), Weblate seems to squash them into a single one.
Furthermore when trying to add leading space to a translation whose source String does not have any, Weblate always "auto-fixes" the translation by removing the leading space.

I already tried

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Server configuration and status

Weblate installation: Hosted Weblate
https://hosted.weblate.org/projects/mumble/mumble-client/

Additional context

This issue was reported to us in https://github.com/mumble-voip/mumble/discussions/5001 (also contains examples)

Actual Question
Is there a setting that we can use to change this behavior? Or some other workaround to make this work?

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[Krzmbrzl]

Note that the issue about the leading spaces in source Strings has been resolved. These are only displayed as if there was only a singke space. In truth all spaces are preserved though

[deluxghost]

Note that the issue about the leading spaces in source Strings has been resolved. These are only displayed as if there was only a singke space. In truth all spaces are preserved though

I think the "displaying" itself is indeed still an issue. A translator may not aware there are multiple spaces unless they click any of the copy button, and leave a wrong translation with only one space. For the example in mumble client, I know there are more spaces only because I know there were more before we migrated to weblate.

[nijel]

Please keep it one topic per issue, having two of them here, and discussing whether one of them is actually and issue or not, does not help in tracking the state of this issue...

The highlighting of whitespace indeed is broken for some time, I've just fixed it in a090d321d88a32373386c66d58898ea7271d2fa8.

The autofixer behaviour can be adjusted using ignore-begin-space and ignore-end-space flags, see https://docs.weblate.org/en/latest/admin/checks.html#customizing-behavior-using-flags.

[Krzmbrzl]

Thank you very much :+1:

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