Highlight non-breaking-space as hints for Translation Editors

[audrasjb]

We French translators have an issue with the non-breaking-space character which we use regularly in punctuation.

When the character is not produced with   HTML entity, but with ALT+255 or ALT+SPACE (which I guess is better), Translation Editors can not see it on Translate and thus can not check its presence (it must replace normal spaces in special case for punctuation) during validation process.

I started to work on a JS script for browser's console to highlight these characters but I wonder if this should not be integrated on translate.wp.org.

If this is seems legit to polyglots, I will be happy to work on it :)

[audrasjb]

My current idea to highlight non-breaking-space

[ocean90]

Please report this as a feature request to GlotPress directly: ​https://github.com/glotpress/glotpress-wp

​https://github.com/GlotPress/GlotPress-WP/issues/166 is a related issue for this.

[audrasjb]

Hello,
Ok, thanks.
For history, there is the patch I worked on:

jQuery('tr.preview > td.translation.foreign-text').each(function(){
	var translation_item = jQuery(this).text();
	if ( translation_item.indexOf(' ') > -1 ) {
		var translation_highlighted = '';
		for (var i = 0; i < translation_item.length; i++) {
			if (translation_item[i] == ' ') {
				translation_highlighted += '<span style="background-color:yellow"> </span>';
			} else {
				translation_highlighted += translation_item[i];
			}
		}
		jQuery(this).html(translation_highlighted);
	}
});