# Spaces after the ':' on translated text
**URL:** https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/spaces-after-the-on-translated-text/8398
**Category:** Translations Team Discussion
**Created:** [December 23, 2014, 7:07pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/spaces-after-the-on-translated-text/8398 "2014-12-23T19:07:16Z")
**Posts on this page:** 9
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### Author:  [@Noctivagante](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Noctivagante)
#### Post date: [December 23, 2014, 7:07pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/spaces-after-the-on-translated-text/8398/1 "2014-12-23T19:07:16Z")
I’m working on the spanish (argentinian) translation, and I’ve found a problem in the game.
There are spaces after the colon " : " that doesn’t appear on spanish translation. The space is not on the original string. I don’t know where they came from.
For example, the second line on an object description. Here’s an image:
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### Author:  [@LazyCat-rus](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/LazyCat-rus)
#### Post date: [December 25, 2014, 9:00am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/spaces-after-the-on-translated-text/8398/2 "2014-12-25T09:00:02Z")
Yes. This is a big. I see your message. But is kind of difficult to fix. Too much of free space calculation.
I will try to fix than on x-mas weekend’s.
May be someone else will try…
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### Author:  [@Noctivagante](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Noctivagante)
#### Post date: [December 25, 2014, 5:36pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/spaces-after-the-on-translated-text/8398/3 "2014-12-25T17:36:30Z")
OK, thank you.
I was wondering if there’s a way to force an empty space after the colon. Something like the linebreak term.
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### Author:  [@LazyCat-rus](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/LazyCat-rus)
#### Post date: [January 6, 2015, 12:14pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/spaces-after-the-on-translated-text/8398/4 "2015-01-06T12:14:03Z")
Ok. I made some fixes. It was problem mostly in translation rather code. Transifex editor does not show beginning or trailing spaces in editor. This very bad and ugly bug. I fixed Argentinian translation manually, but i don’t know what to do in future 😕
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### Author:  [@Noctivagante](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Noctivagante)
#### Post date: [January 6, 2015, 6:19pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/spaces-after-the-on-translated-text/8398/5 "2015-01-06T18:19:07Z")
OK.
I’ve seen that other translation doesn’t have this spaces problem… Why?
They didn’t use Transifex, maybe?
Or am I doing something wrong?
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### Author:  [@LazyCat-rus](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/LazyCat-rus)
#### Post date: [January 6, 2015, 7:39pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/spaces-after-the-on-translated-text/8398/6 "2015-01-06T19:39:19Z")
This new bug. “spaces problem” does not exist in 2 months ago. 😕
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### Author:  [@Noctivagante](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Noctivagante)
#### Post date: [January 6, 2015, 7:56pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/spaces-after-the-on-translated-text/8398/7 "2015-01-06T19:56:17Z")
I saw that now I can leave a blank space to end the translated string on Transifex. That’s what you changed recently?
So now, if I need a space after the colon, I just leave the blank space. That may work.
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### Author:  [@LazyCat-rus](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/LazyCat-rus)
#### Post date: [January 8, 2015, 10:30pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/spaces-after-the-on-translated-text/8398/8 "2015-01-08T22:30:09Z")
> So now, if I need a space after the colon, I just leave the blank space. That may work.
Yes, that will work but this is sooooo ugly :/
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### Author:  [@Noctivagante](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Noctivagante)
#### Post date: [January 8, 2015, 11:32pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/spaces-after-the-on-translated-text/8398/9 "2015-01-08T23:32:08Z")
It’s OK. Now I’m doing it like that.
Thank you.