The ATE adds a space before every segment inside a paragraph in Chinese.

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Last updated by Yvette 2 years, 4 months ago.

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July 20, 2022 at 11:19 am #11700415
olegA-5	The ATE adds a space before every segment inside a paragraph in Chinese.
July 22, 2022 at 10:05 am #11717967
Yvette Supporter Languages: English (English ) Spanish (Español ) Timezone: Europe/Paris (GMT+01:00)	Hello I have been assigned to your ticket. 1. Please create a simple post or page with nothing but 2 sentences that illustrates this issue. Write back with the URL or the post/page name. Make the phrase as short and simple as possible. 2. Are you able to replicate the issue on this sandbox site? hidden link Please use the same example as the one you create on your own site. Thanks
July 22, 2022 at 12:14 pm #11718959
olegA-5	Yvette, I've replicated the issue on the sandbox. Page title is Test.
July 22, 2022 at 2:10 pm #11719981
Yvette Supporter Languages: English (English ) Spanish (Español ) Timezone: Europe/Paris (GMT+01:00)	Hello I believe that this is intended and if you do not want to have the space between segements, you will need to combine the segments into a common one. I just tried this same translation with Spanish, and the result is the same. Please givev it a try yourself. It is just especially noticible with Chinese because of the font being used.
July 22, 2022 at 2:27 pm #11720057
olegA-5	When there are html tags in a segment, I can't combine it with the next one. (I believe, that that is not very good for many-many reasons, mostly because a translation just wiping out upon adding or deleting a tag later, without changing a 'main' text, and joined segments rejoining (if the tag is not within the last) with translation, again, wiping out, but support explained me that the benefits outweight...) Anyway, since I often have html tags, it's not for me. It is noticible with Chinese because there should be no spaces, except the ones that are part of some characters, like chinese dots and commas, i.e. there shoud no be any 'traditional' spaces. It's not about some special font.
July 22, 2022 at 5:32 pm #11721729
Yvette Supporter Languages: English (English ) Spanish (Español ) Timezone: Europe/Paris (GMT+01:00)	I can understand your reasons for not joining the segments. I simply wanted to point out that this extra white space is not necessarily something that only happens with chinese. I can escalate this issue to our 2nd tier support group who can then notify the ATE development team about the impact on Chinese translations. Do you have any other comments regarding this issue before I escalate?
July 22, 2022 at 5:37 pm #11721737
olegA-5	I do understand that WPML adds spaces between segments inside paragraphs for any language, since segments cannot start or end with spaces, but as a rule there should be spaces between segments after all. I don't have any comments. I would appreciate the escalation of the issue.
July 25, 2022 at 4:48 pm #11735323
Yvette Supporter Languages: English (English ) Spanish (Español ) Timezone: Europe/Paris (GMT+01:00)	Escalated