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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.

See How to Show/Hide Whitespace Characters in the Editor View for information about displaying whitespace characters in the Editor view.

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

°

Non-breaking space

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

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

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

Tab character