Title remove extraneous space disabled by default

Moin · March 18, 2026, 9:43am

The setting is disabled by default for all sites where the default locale isn’t English

Locale-specific defaults for site settings (`locale_default`)

title_remove_extraneous_space

Description: Remove leading whitespaces in front of the end punctuation.
Default: False

Locale overrides

Locale Value

en True

en_GB True

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Title remove extraneous space disabled by default

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