UITextView text property returns " " if " " is typed in by the user?

Question

Does anyone have a solution to this? I did some google-ing and came up with zilch. I have no idea why a UITextView would replace   with a space, but it is indeed happening.

It is easy to duplicate - type the non breaking space code I placed in the title of this question into a UITextView, and then look at the text property, you'll see a space.

Is there a fix for this?

Answer 1

You are out of luck. This is most likely a bug, and it seems it has been filed with Apple.
See post UITextField converts non-breaking spaces to spaces?.

As a workaround you can use the delegate method textViewDidChange: to catch the keyboard input to keep track of any   occurrences and then react accordingly.

Cheers,
Sascha