About Whitespace Characters

You can display whitespace characters in the Editor window in the Editor view and the TM side-by-side editor window in the Translation Memories view. When they are displayed, whitespace characters (for example, spaces, non-breaking spaces, tabs and line breaks) appear as symbols in the document text.

Click here for information about displaying whitespace characters in the Editor view.

Click here for information about displaying whitespace characters in the Translation Memories view.

Whitespace Character Symbols

The following list shows all available whitespace character symbols:

 

Normal space character

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Non-breaking space

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Normal line break (Carriage Return ( CF) + Line Feed ( LF))

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Line break consisting of a single Line Feed ( LF) character (only appears in UNIX documents).

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Line break consisting of a single Carriage Return ( CR) (only appears in documents created on a Macintosh computer).

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Tab character

 

NOTE

Because line breaks usually mark the end of a segment, line break characters are not usually visible in the Editor window. If you want to display line break characters you must apply a filter to the active documents and choose to display content outside segment boundaries. To do this, select the All Content option on the Display Filter toolbar. For step-by-step instructions, click here.

 

 

Related Topics

Overview: Translating and Reviewing Documents

Overview: Working with Text

Translation and Review Toolbar

How to Show/Hide Whitespace Character in the Editor View

How to Show/Hide Whitespace Characters in the Translation Memories View