Whitespace Characters in Translatable Phrases

[RubenJ01]

Preconditions and environment

While developing a module that expands on the translation process, I realized that some phrases have empty whitespace characters saved in them. I'm referring to the following phrases. The whitespace is indicated by the pink dots in the screenshot:

Im referring to the following lines of code:
vendor/magento/module-indexer/Controller/Adminhtml/Indexer/MassOnTheFly.php line: 44
vendor/magento/module-indexer/Controller/Adminhtml/Indexer/MassChangelog.php line 44

Steps to reproduce

1. Open the Magento 2 codebase on version 2.4.8.
2. Navigate to vendor/magento/module-indexer/Controller/Adminhtml/Indexer/MassOnTheFly.php and check line 44.
3. Navigate to vendor/magento/module-indexer/Controller/Adminhtml/Indexer/MassChangelog.php and check line 44.
4. Observe that the phrases contain leading or trailing whitespace characters.

Expected result

Phrases should be saved without any leading or trailing whitespace.

Actual result

Phrases contain extra whitespace, such as spaces before or after the phrase,

Additional information

No response

Release note

No response

Triage and priority

• Severity: S0 - Affects critical data or functionality and leaves users without workaround.
• Severity: S1 - Affects critical data or functionality and forces users to employ a workaround.
• Severity: S2 - Affects non-critical data or functionality and forces users to employ a workaround.
• Severity: S3 - Affects non-critical data or functionality and does not force users to employ a workaround.
• Severity: S4 - Affects aesthetics, professional look and feel, “quality” or “usability”.

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[engcom-November]

Hello @RubenJ01 ,

Thank you for the report and your collaboration.

We attempted to reproduce the reported issue using our latest 2.4-develop build. However, the issue could not be reproduced.

We followed the provided pre-conditions and steps to reproduce, but did not encounter the issue. Kindly let us know if we might have missed any specific detail or step during the reproduction process and Please share the screenshots if possible.

As a result, we are marking this issue as "Needs Update".

Thank you once again!

[hostep]

Issue is valid, @engcom-November: how can you not reproduce the problem? It's just looking at the code and seeing a translated phrase being split over 2 lines. This makes it difficult to translate because of all those extra spaces and a new line in between the 2 sentences.

Issue was introduced by #36864 BTW.

[IIedetaxi]

I can confirm that the issue is valid. Regarding the whitespace, it's possible that some IDEs automatically remove it, but in my case, it also causes issues with the translation and a translation module.