[ Bug ] Broken Whitespace Control on {%- liquid

[PhoneDroid]

Thought this might be fixed at some point
but I guess I'll write an issue then.

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In the following example the whitespace before
the liquid block tag should be removed but isn't.

 
 
 
{%- liquid %}

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We often use liquid blocks at the start of snippets so
in cases where we cannot have whitespace we are
forced to ensure the liquid block opening tag stays
in the first line ..

[jg-rp]

Your example contains "En Space" characters (U+2002) on those blank lines, which Liquid does not recognize as whitespace.

If I manually type three blank lines followed by {%- liquid %}, whitespace control works as expected.

You should see this behavior with all tags, not just {% liquid %}. For reference (from the Ruby Docs), these characters are considered whitespace in Liquid:

• null: "\x00", "\u0000"
• horizontal tab: "\x09", "\t"
• line feed: "\x0a", "\n"
• vertical tab: "\x0b", "\v"
• form feed: "\x0c", "\f"
• carriage return: "\x0d", "\r"
• space: "\x20", " "

[PhoneDroid]

That was just so the markdown renders properly, it was just a visualization.

[PhoneDroid]

I forgot to mention that this behaviour occurs when rendering a snippet.

{% liquid

    capture value
        echo '['
        render 'Snippet'
        echo ']'
    endcapture

%}

[charlespwd]

I'm not sure I can reproduce:

$ cat example.liquid 
<pre><code>

  {%- liquid
    echo 'hello world'
  -%}

</code></pre>
$ bin/render example.liquid
<pre><code>hello world</code></pre>

Seems to be working fine?

[charlespwd]

Also tried with snippet and it still worked (with this small change to bin/render)
https://github.com/Shopify/liquid/pull/new/whitespace-stripping-test

$ cat example.liquid 
<pre><code>

  {%- render 'snippet-1' -%}

</code></pre>
$ bin/render example.liquid 
<pre><code>hello world</code></pre>

[EvilGenius13]

Closing the issue. Please let us know if you experience this again!