Review trailing spaces in messages.properties

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This message for Mifos is no longer supported, so the issue was closed. Siebrand 18:00, 4 November 2013 (UTC)

After the import, nikerabbit noticed some messages have trailing spaces that should be removed:

http://translatewiki.net/static/mifos-trailing-whitespace-list.txt

Jasmine also said some of them are there intentionally. Need to review each message flagged in the list above and trim as necessary.

Just for my knowledge. What side effects will we see in the translations if we have a trailing whitespace. I know I have a single trailing whitespace in some messages because they get appended. And maybe I need to amend that so that if two messages are appended, they should be put in one single message instead of two. But that's not something I want to do on the fly, so it would be good to understand the problem a bit more - thanks.

Trailing spaces will not appear in translated properties files so we need to be mindful of whether those trailing spaces are required or not.

There are still such messages. Here is a new list:

note
toquicklyfindAClientCenterGroupaccountyoucan
manadatoryHiddenFields.familyDetails
manadatoryHiddenFields.spouse/fathermiddlename
manadatoryHiddenFields.sourceOfFund
manageRoles.offices
offices.viewoffices.clickonanofficebelowtoviewdetailsandmakechangesor
organizationPreferences.viewholidays.belowIsTheListOfOrganizationWideHolidaysClickHereTo
datadisplayandrules.editadditionalfields.savings
dataDisplayAndRules.defineLookupOptions.indian
dataDisplayAndRules.defineLookupOptions.collegeDegree
organizationPreferences.viewChecklists.Clickonachecklistbelowtoviewdetailsandmakechangesor
datadisplayandrules.defineLabels.graceonallrepayments (is the \ needed in this message?)
login.UserName
manageLoanProducts.viewLoanProducts.clickonaLoanproductbelowtoviewdetailsandmakechangesor
systemUsers.preview.edituser
systemUsers.preview.permissions
editReportCategory.informationmessage

Some of them are clearly lego or patchwork messages.

I've removed all trailing spaces from messages.properties per request. Fixed by http://mifosforge.jira.com/browse/MIFOS-4066.

Thanks. Do mind though that trailing spaces are usually a sign that patchwork messages are in play, and that this may have caused spacing/word separation issues if done bluntly.

I've gone through each message identified above to ensure that it is safe to remove trailing spaces.