QA checker for non breaking space not working

Dear all,

I am using trados studio 2022 sr2

I am trying to get the QA checker to point ot when in source there is a Non breaking space but not in target, I have found this article

https://gateway.rws.com/csm?sys_kb_id=f226e6ec1b4b9a50772c0dcad34bcb51&id=kb_article_view&sysparm_rank=1&sysparm_tsqueryId=33d71ed68384aa14a6b1fab8beaad3e3

but I still get no errors also, i am surprised the regular tag checker is not poining out the absece of spacing next to the tags.

below you see an example of the segemnts i need the QA to identify

Screenshot of Trados Studio interface showing two segments with highlighted text and tags, indicating potential issues with non-breaking spaces and tag consistency.

these are my settings:

Screenshot of Trados Studio QA Checker settings with a regular expression search for non-breaking spaces (NBSP) without a specified regex pattern. you cannot see the space but i used the suggested alt + 0160 in source and target

and these are the tag checks

Screenshot of Trados Studio QA Checker settings for tag verification, with options for tags added, deleted, order change, ghost tags, and spacing around tags set to 'Error'.

Has anyone encountered this issue, i am probably missing something here...

Many thanks

Rita



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    You may be adding that regex rule in the wrong place. Apart from the difference between File>Options and Projects Settings, there are 2 places where you can add regex rules to Projects Settings:

    Screenshot of Trados Studio Project Settings showing Verification options expanded with Regular Expressions highlighted.

    and in the specific language combination:

    Screenshot of Trados Studio Project Settings under Language Pairs, showing Verification options and Regular Expressions highlighted for English to German.

    The second place takes precedence over the first one, so if there is something in the second place, the new regex rules added to the first one will be just ignored. That maybe the reason why it’s not working for you. you can quickly check my point if you add a rule to find the letter 'a' in target, a very common letter, to the same place you added the non-breaking space rule. Does it work? If the new rule doesn’t work, you may try to add the rule to the second position…

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