Forum:Weird spaces before question marks

I don't know why, but spaces before question marks (in wikicode) are rendered as a non-breaking spaces (&amp;nbsp; entity reference). Exclamation marks are also rendered this way. Is MediaWiki doing this transformation? or some extension?

An example (the wikicode is on the right):

{| width="100%" cellpadding="5"


 * }

and the HTML is sent to the browser as:

&amp;nbsp;?asd fghjkl &amp;nbsp;?asd&amp;nbsp;?fghjkl &amp;nbsp;!asd fghjkl &amp;nbsp;!asd&amp;nbsp;!fghjkl asd fghjkl asd fghjkl

There are any reason for this behavior? --Ciencia Al Poder (talk) -WikiDex 19:44, 18 October 2007 (UTC)


 * Yes there is !
 * At least in non english wikis.
 * The thing is that in french, for exemple, when a sentence finish with a "!" or a "?", the gramatical rule of the language say that a space is needed before thoses caracters. And if we type a real space, there's a chance of getting thoses alone on the start of a line.
 * But, aside from that, i dont know much. The software should not botter doing this on english wikis maybe. TulipVorlax 23:24, 18 October 2007 (UTC)