Space missing after tag below post

[Connie]

Hi!
When an article has tags, the tags are listed below the text right-aligned.
But a small inconvenience: there should be a space after "tag:" otherwise the tags are displayed immediately behind

wrong:

Tag:Rome, Berlin

correct:

Tag: Rome, Berlin

[sayontan]

Connie,
I have a space in my code:

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         <span class="tags"><?php the_tags(__('Tagged with: ', 'suf_theme'),', ','<br />'); ?></span>


Looks like the translation file that you are using doesn't have a space. Which one are you using?
Sayontan.

[Connie]

Hi Sayontan,

I am using the german version, de_DE

but I think these spaces should be in the template, not in the language-file, because how can you guarantee that the spaces are added there?
And in case people start to enter their tags with spaces before, that will be stupid as well ;=)

I always add these spaces by

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in the templates...

Cheers, Connie

[sayontan]

Connie,
As I told you, the space IS in the template file - I didn't miss it. The translator forgot it at his end.

Sayontan.

[sayontan]

One more thing - regarding your point of people entering tag names with spaces, that is not an issue. Multiple spaces are collapsed as a single space while rendering HTML. In fact you will get in trouble if you use  

[Connie]

Hi Sayontan,

yess, the translator forgot it.
Unfortunately most translators will do... so it would be better to have that space in the template and not in the translated string ;=)

[sayontan]

Connie,
The short answer is I am not modifying the template, because THERE IS NOTHING WRONG IN IT.

The long answer is German is just one translation. The translators for other languages have formatted this differently in some cases and either preserve the format or break it. E.g. in Arabic and French there is a space before, but not after the ":" (how would you have me resolve that?), in Catalan there is no space on either side, Danish, Spanish and Dutch do it correctly etc. I don't want to force something else here and risk making it a problem for every other language. I will fix the German translation file and that is all I will do.

I cannot account for errors in translation files that have nothing to do with code, because, to use your example of cheese on a pizza, you are asking me to ship a microwave with a pizza because the guy delivering it might get late and the pizza might get cold - completely pointless.

Sayontan.