Some Chinese names have unnecessary spaces at the end when transliterating

[taraskuzyk]

When trying to transliterate

"马云"
I receive

"Ma Yun " (notice the space in the end) instead of

"Ma Yun"

Here's the code you can use to replicate this issue:

import unittest
import unidecode

class TestStrings(unittest.TestCase):
    def test_replace_non_ascii_letters_with_chinese_name(self):
        self.assertEquals(unidecode.unidecode("马云"), "Ma Yun")

The test fails with the following error:

AssertionError: 'Ma Yun ' != 'Ma Yun'
- Ma Yun 
?       -
+ Ma Yun

Run on Python 3.8.5

EDIT:

Google Translate seems to be doing this with no issue, but perhaps Google Translate has the faulty transliteration. Chinese speakers welcome to correct me.

[avian2]

The technical reason why transliteration for each letter includes a space at the end is because otherwise you would not get spaces between letters. In your example you would get "MaYun". Unidecode just does a simple mapping from a Unicode character to ASCII sequences and doesn't know which letter appears last in your name. Hence the last letter will leave a trailing space.

I don't speak Chines, but the original author of Unidecode thought it was better to have spaces so I will leave it like that.