Strings beginning with space

Re: Strings beginning with space

by David Mudrák -
Number of replies: 3
Picture of Language pack maintainers

Yes, there is a procedure - please report such a suggestion as a new MDL issue, component "Policy".

I agree it is a bad practice to design strings with trailing and heading whitespace and I believe it should be considered a bug in the original English strings.

Meanwhile, you should be able to insert strings with whitespaces into AMOS though - https://lang.moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=5908#p6932

In reply to David Mudrák

Re: Strings beginning with space

by Séverin Terrier -

Thanks David for (pointing to) the tip : Maintaining CTRL before clicking on text editing place to avoid AMOS filtering smile

Here's a command to search for english files containing trailing space (launch from Moodle dir) :

for i in `find . -type f -name '*.php' | grep 'lang/en/'`
  do grep -Hne " ';$" $i | grep string
done | sort | cut -c 3-

There are more than for begining space. I suppose my search won't find multiple lines strings...

Séverin

In reply to David Mudrák

Re: Strings beginning with space

by Nicolas Martignoni -
Picture of Language pack maintainers

Just a notice about AMOS: it's impossible to propagate strings with leading spaces to other versions (or at least I didn't find how to).

Is it worth opening an tracker issue?