From 1081f570bd2a0114dcd76bf0fd2da18227bdfd70 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: zepumph <michael.kauzmann@colorado.edu>
Date: Mon, 22 Jul 2019 13:48:13 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] added TODO< https://github.com/phetsims/chipper/issues/779

---
 js/common/ChipperStringUtils.js | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/js/common/ChipperStringUtils.js b/js/common/ChipperStringUtils.js
index e9913e53d..4edfa25f5 100644
--- a/js/common/ChipperStringUtils.js
+++ b/js/common/ChipperStringUtils.js
@@ -135,6 +135,7 @@
           if ( element.hasOwnProperty( 'value' ) ) {
 
             // remove leading/trailing whitespace, see chipper#619. Do this before addDirectionalFormatting
+            // TODO: some a11y strings have leading/trailing whitespace purposefully, perhaps we should formalize that somehow, https://github.com/phetsims/chipper/issues/779
             element.value = element.value.trim();
             element.value = ChipperStringUtils.addDirectionalFormatting( element.value, isRTL );
           }