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Double spaces entered wrong.

I'm not sure if this is done by elk or sceditor but it's really annoying.  If you're old like me and were taught to type two spaces after periods then in order to preserve that a nbsp is inserted.  Yay, that's good.  But here's the problem.  On elk the nbsp is inserted as the second space and not the first one.  Why is that a problem?  Because if the word wrap happens to break there the word will be indented one space at the start of the next line which looks awful in left to right languages.

So what's responsible for putting in the nbsp so it can be fixed to put the normal space as the last space instead of the first for left to right languages?

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Ok, now I'm even more confused.  Sometimes it stores puts the nbsp first and other times second.  Not sure what causes the differences.

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The nbsp is "added" in parse_bbc, there is an strtr that replaces any double space with a space + nbsp.
It should be enough to change the order in the replacement here:
Code: [Select]
$message = strtr($message, array('  ' => '  ',
to:
Code: [Select]
$message = strtr($message, array('  ' => '  ',

 emanuele crosses his fingers hoping Elk will escape the stuff in code blocks, but he feels it will not.

We should find a way to show stuff in code blocks exactly as it is... :-\
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Adding here because I'm tired of editing the previous message: the change is in Subs.php.
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Thanks for the fix.  It's odd that it seems random whether or not it hits that line as many times the substitution is done in the correct order.  I've not noticed the pattern of why though.  I even grabbed one message that exhibited the problem, clicked quick edit then save and it magically fixed itself.

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full reply  wyz
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quick  edit
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quick reply  to full
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Here it is: start from quick reply, hit preview, and then post.
In that case the order is inverted (at least is you use the plain quick reply, not tested with the full editor).
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I don't use quick reply, so I suspect it has something to do with going through preview.

 

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Probably then the "new reply" warning or some other error.
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So does the change @emanuele proposed fix the issue? 

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I can't say for certain as I've only had it in place for a little while and am not certain the various conditions that triggered it.  But I'm certain his fix is a change that should be made.  Hopefully it's the only one.  But if not and I see it again in new posts I'll report back that there's still a problem.