Bug 562036

Summary: Don't have extra whitespace before sentence start
Product: [Eclipse Project] Platform Reporter: Michael Keppler <michael.keppler>
Component: UIAssignee: Platform-UI-Inbox <Platform-UI-Inbox>
Status: NEW --- QA Contact:
Severity: trivial    
Priority: P3 CC: karsten.thoms
Version: 4.16   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: PC   
OS: Windows 10   
See Also: https://git.eclipse.org/r/160808
https://git.eclipse.org/c/platform/eclipse.platform.ui.git/commit/?id=b1e0aa7da2515ebbdcbaf20a69de9f153c9d5b7f
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Description Michael Keppler CLA 2020-04-12 02:27:32 EDT 
Created attachment 282419 [details]
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Texts in NLS properties of Eclipse projects often have double blanks (or encoded newline plus blank) at the start of a sentence. That is wrong, since SWT renders multiple whitespace characters as they are, in contrast to HTML rendering in browsers (see screenshot).

So please let us stop using these patterns:

* foobar.  Next sentence starts
* foobar.\n Next sentence starts

If other committers agree to this, then I would like to use this bug mainly as reference for bugs to be created in other projects, since there is nothing about typography in the user interface guidelines at https://wiki.eclipse.org/User_Interface_Guidelines.
Comment 1 Karsten Thoms CLA 2020-04-12 21:43:26 EDT 
Yes, please go ahead with that.
Comment 2 Eclipse Genie CLA 2020-04-13 09:06:34 EDT 
New Gerrit change created: https://git.eclipse.org/r/160808