Bug 562036 - Don't have extra whitespace before sentence start
Summary: Don't have extra whitespace before sentence start
Status: NEW
Alias: None
Product: Platform
Classification: Eclipse Project
Component: UI (show other bugs)
Version: 4.16   Edit
Hardware: PC Windows 10
: P3 trivial (vote)
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Assignee: Platform-UI-Inbox CLA
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Reported: 2020-04-12 02:27 EDT by Michael Keppler CLA
Modified: 2020-04-14 09:58 EDT (History)
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2020-04-12 02:27 EDT, Michael Keppler CLA 		no flags Details
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Description Michael Keppler CLA 2020-04-12 02:27:32 EDT 
Created attachment 282419 [details]
screenshot with example message dialogs

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