I recently noticed by writing a comment that multiple spaces are replaced by a single space inside a code block. The [question][1] has since been migrated to [SO][2].

I worked around it by replacing spaces with underscores, but that looks awkward at least.

Put aside that comments are not for code, is that a known behaviour? (And if so, what is the correct way to handle that situation?)


  [1]: http://askubuntu.com/questions/86323/how-do-you-add-positional-parameters
  [2]: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8447397/how-do-you-add-positional-parameters