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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    Maybe a different condition will fit?

    Dropdown menu in Trados Studio with various options for reporting matches, such as 'Report if target matches' and 'Grouped search expression - report if source and target matches'.

    The reason will be, that the regex is only a single space. Your segment does however contain more than this, so I'M afraid it will not work at all.

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