Disappearing white space if the first html-codetag is preceded with a (white space) about calibre-kobo-driver HOT 1 CLOSED

Reopening bug #32 (removal of white spaces before html markup tags). The bug is still there. If only the option "enable extended features" is selected. Just only to Kobofy a book.

At least for "i", "em", "b", "strong", "small" tags, if these tags are preceded with a white space. This only applies to the first occurrence in a sentence.

"Hello world
"Helloworld ("world" is italicized, space removed before world)

You may check this also for "span class" tags.
Edit: "span" tags seems to be O.K.
Is it doable to temporary rename problem tags to span classes? And when the Kobfication has been done reverse it? Or add the new created span classes to the css?
E.g:
"i" becomes "span class="italic"
"b" becomes "span class="bold"
"small" becomes "span class="small-caps"
etc.