[Mediawiki-l] Leading or trailing spaces in template parameters

[Kenneth Porter]

I want to pass an argument to a template that contains a leading and 
trailing space. It looks like the template parser is stripping these before 
evaluating the parameter. Is there a way to prevent that?

Here's an example page:

<http://www.wowwiki.com/Guild:M_A_%28Bleeding_Hollow_US%29>

I want to pass " M A " to the Guildbox template's name parameter. It will 
get expanded into a string to render in an off-site URL. Currently it gets 
rendered as "M+A", not "+M+A+", so the URL doesn't connect to the desired 
page.