NSLeftTextAlignment with spaces at end of string

Question

if I sets NSCenterTextAlignment for my NSTextView my whitespaces at the end of string magically disappears

for example I have string

@"while      "

if I display it with NSRightTextAlignment it shows well

|white      |

but with NSLeftTextAlignment all whitespaces just cut

|white|

how can I get results like

|      white|

tabs is not an option

Answer 1

Just a guess: it sounds as if you are trying to left-align centered items by using spaces to pad some of them. If you must do this you can use non-breaking spaces (UTF-16 0x00A0, type as option-space). HTH