Index: /home/workspace/drupalhispano/sites/all/modules/l10n_server/l10n_community/l10n_community.install
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--- /home/workspace/drupalhispano/sites/all/modules/l10n_server/l10n_community/l10n_community.install	(revision 224)
+++ /home/workspace/drupalhispano/sites/all/modules/l10n_server/l10n_community/l10n_community.install	(working copy)
@@ -170,6 +170,28 @@
 }
 
 /**
+ * Clean up starting and trailing spaces and new lines in translations
+ */
+function l10n_community_update_5003() {
+  $ret = array();
+  // We just search for strings that begin or end with these characters
+  foreach (array('\n', ' ') as $char) {
+    $result = db_query("SELECT s.sid, s.value, t.tid, t.translation FROM {l10n_community_string} s INNER JOIN {l10n_community_translation} t ON s.sid = t.sid WHERE s.value LIKE '%s%%' OR  s.value LIKE '%%%s' OR t.translation LIKE '%s%%' OR t.translation LIKE '%%%s'", $char, $char, $char, $char);
+    while ($string = db_fetch_object($result)) {
+      if ($string->translation) {
+        $trimmed = l10n_community_trim($string->translation, $string->value);
+        if ($trimmed != $string->translation) {
+          db_query("UPDATE {l10n_community_translation} SET translation = '%s' WHERE tid = %d", $trimmed, $string->tid);
+          drupal_set_message("Fixed string $string->sid: ". check_plain(substr($string->translation, 0, 50)));
+        }
+      }
+    }
+  }
+
+  return $ret;
+}
+
+/**
  * Implementation of hook_uninstall().
  */
 function l10n_community_uninstall() {
Index: /home/workspace/drupalhispano/sites/all/modules/l10n_server/l10n_community/l10n_community.module
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--- /home/workspace/drupalhispano/sites/all/modules/l10n_server/l10n_community/l10n_community.module	(revision 225)
+++ /home/workspace/drupalhispano/sites/all/modules/l10n_server/l10n_community/l10n_community.module	(working copy)
@@ -666,10 +666,11 @@
  */
 function l10n_community_target_save($sid, $translation, $langcode, $uid, $suggestion, &$inserted, &$updated, &$unchanged, &$suggested) {
   
-  // Look for an existing active translation.
-  $existing_string = db_fetch_object(db_query("SELECT sid, tid, translation FROM {l10n_community_translation} WHERE sid = %d AND language = '%s' AND is_suggestion = 0 AND is_active = 1", $sid, $langcode));
-  
-  if (isset($existing_string->sid)) {
+  // Look for an existing active translation and grab source string.
+  $existing_string = db_fetch_object(db_query("SELECT s.value, t.sid, t.tid, t.translation FROM {l10n_community_string} s LEFT JOIN {l10n_community_translation} t ON s.sid  = t.sid WHERE s.sid = %d AND (t.sid IS NULL OR t.language = '%s' AND t.is_suggestion = 0 AND t.is_active = 1)", $sid, $langcode));
+  $translation = l10n_community_trim($translation, $existing_string->value);
+
+  if (!empty($existing_string->sid)) {
     // We have an active translation.
     if ($existing_string->translation != $translation) {
       // And what we should save now is different.
@@ -708,6 +709,23 @@
 }
 
 /**
+ * Special trimming, make spacing and new lines the same in translation as in the source
+ * 
+ * @param $translation
+ *   Translation string
+ * @param $source
+ *   Source string
+ * @return
+ *   Translation string with the right beginning and ending chars
+ */
+function l10n_community_trim($translation, $source) {
+  $matches = array();
+  $chars = '\n\s\r\t';
+  preg_match("/^([$chars]*).*[^$chars]([$chars]*)\$/", $source, $matches);
+  return $matches[1].trim($translation).$matches[2];
+}
+
+/**
  * Set a message based on the number of translations changed.
  * 
  * Used by both the save and import process.