Leading space characters not rendered in messages

[kieranlane]

Steps to reproduce

Spaces are not being honoured during the rendering of messages in EX for Android (See attached screenshot).

Outcome

What did you expect?

Additional spaces should be present in the rendered version of the message. Like with Element Web:

What happened instead?

Leading spaces appear to be removed.

Your phone model

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Operating system version

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Application version and app store

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Homeserver

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Will you send logs?

No

Are you willing to provide a PR?

No

[jmartinesp]

I'm pretty sure this is caused by the markdown -> HTML conversion: for HTML any whitespace that's not entered as non-breakable whitespace (NBSP) will be ignored, unless it's a single whitespace between 2 non-whitespace values (this can be tested here, i.e.).

I think the only way to fix this would be to pre-process the MD somehow to translate the whitespace groups / leading / trailing whitespace to NBSP chars.