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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
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<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
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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
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successive whitespaces removed by browser, messes up CLI formatting
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1548128
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