[Escalated to WPML Developers team] is removed from translation
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1. Add a list block
2. Add a row with the text "Office& nbsp;365" (disregard space after &)
3. Publish, notice that non breaking space is added correctly
4. Create translation using ATE, <wpml_nbsp> not shown in translation as usual
5. Translation is "Office 365" without non breaking space
Languages: English (English )Spanish (Español )German (Deutsch )
Timezone: America/Lima (GMT-05:00)
Hello,
If you would like to translate raw HTML you might better use the Classic Translation Editor instead, as ATE does not output HTML.
When testing ATE now I do not see an issue with markers for bold text, italic text, or links and in your example using   appears to be somehow redundant.
In fact, I am aware that there exists or existed a marker called <wpml_nbsp> but I am not sure if it is expected to be set when using Gutenberg in such cases like in your example.
Do you mean that just some time ago when using Gutenberg the marker <wpml_nbsp> used to always be set in such a case by ATE?
In fact, the marker is not appearing on ATE when using Gutenberg, and the " " is not found on the translation in the backend.
But I do not really see any issue, as the ATE is converting " " correctly.
Do you have an example where this behavior actually breaks the format of the translation?
Languages: English (English )Spanish (Español )German (Deutsch )
Timezone: America/Lima (GMT-05:00)
Hello,
This is because the English text is one character longer than the Swedish version and the width of the list item causes a line break in the Desktop layout.
You can further see that the line break does not occur on mobile view.
You can solve this by applying this custom CSS rule:
I understand that but the point with adding non breaking spaces is to make sure that your content line breaks nicely regardless of the width of the parent container. If WPML removes non breaking spaces from translations that makes for a poor experience.
If you look in the highlighted a tag you can see that the " " has been removed in this translation. I know that these will overrule the CSS and make the box wider, but it will break in a way that is more readable.
Now it is like this:
Document management best practices in Office
365
What I expect with non breaking space:
Document management best practices in
Office 365
Languages: English (English )Spanish (Español )German (Deutsch )
Timezone: America/Lima (GMT-05:00)
Hello,
Thank you for your patience while I have been looking into this issue.
I was able to recreate that the non-breaking space character is removed once we open a translation inside ATE and then replaced the character inside the page's source code with an empty string.
This should get solved by our ATE team by including the marker for this purpose shortly.
I have escalated the issue to our team and I will be in contact with you once I received further feedback.
Languages: English (English )Spanish (Español )German (Deutsch )
Timezone: America/Lima (GMT-05:00)
Hello,
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