Preserve multiple spaces in a row in JIRA issues

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In a JIRA issue description, any number of sequential spaces will be collapsed into a single space.

E.g., "this          sentence has 10 spaces between the first two words"

I pressed the spacebar 10 times after typing "this" in that sentence. There should be 10 spaces between "this" and "sentence" but JIRA automatically collapses them into a single space.

None of the style options seems to preserve spaces. I am using JIRA v6.4.12 and the preformatted, paragraph quote, and block quote style options all collapse spaces.

I need to preserve spaces because I often paste stack traces into issue descriptions. The spaces for formatting make stack traces much easier to read.

Is there a way to force JIRA to display spaces as-is?

 

TõnisO

Wrap the text in 

{noformat} OR {code}

tags, like so:

this          sentence has 10 spaces between the first two words using {noformat}

this          sentence has 10 spaces between the first two words using {code}