Input field strips leading and trailing whitespace

[Carpela]

When I enter some information e.g. " OR " Best in place is stripping the leading and trailing spaces and thus updaing the field as "OR". Now I can sort of understand why you might want to do that, but in this case, I really need it to keep the spaces...

[Carpela]

Looks like it won't accept " " as a valid entry either. Is there a way to switch this off?

[Ghanimaid]

Any news in that case? I need this "nontrailing whitespace" function too