Whitespace Correct tool

The Whitespace Correct tool cleans up whitespace in target translations. It can collapse repeated spaces, trim leading and trailing whitespace, match the source's leading/trailing whitespace onto the target, remove zero-width characters, and remove whitespace after specific punctuation marks. The last is particularly useful when translating from a space-delimited language into a non-space-delimited one such as Chinese or Japanese.

The tool operates only on the target text, so a target locale is required, and only blocks that already have a target for that locale are processed.

IDwhitespace-correct

SourceBuilt-in

Categorytext-processing

Cardinalitybilingual

Requirestarget-language

Tagstext-processing

Parameters

Parameter	Type	Default	Description
`correctComma`	boolean	true	Correct whitespace after commas
`correctExclamation`	boolean	true	Correct whitespace after exclamation marks
`correctFullStop`	boolean	true	Correct whitespace after full stops (periods)
`correctQuestion`	boolean	true	Correct whitespace after question marks
`includeHorizontalWS`	boolean	true	Include horizontal tab characters in corrections
`includeVerticalWS`	boolean	true	Include vertical whitespace (line feeds and carriage returns) in corrections
`matchSourceWhitespace`	boolean	true	Copy source leading/trailing whitespace to target
`normalizeSpaces`	boolean	true	Collapse multiple spaces to a single space
`removeZeroWidthChars`	boolean	true	Remove zero-width spaces and joiners
`targetLocale`	string		Target locale for processing
`trimLeading`	boolean	false	Remove leading whitespace from target text
`trimTrailing`	boolean	false	Remove trailing whitespace from target text

Configure these parameters interactively and copy the flow-step YAML on the Tool Reference.

Examples

Normalize spacing for a locale

Apply the default whitespace cleanup to a target.

targetLocale: fr-FR

Tidy CJK punctuation spacing

Remove spaces after punctuation for a non-space-delimited target.

targetLocale: zh-CN
correctFullStop: true
correctComma: true

Processing notes

Operates on the target text only; a target locale is required and only existing targets are processed.
Punctuation correction removes the whitespace that immediately follows each enabled punctuation mark, limited to the included whitespace types.

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