[Syntaxes] says:
> 5.2 Matching Rule Definitions
> When evaluating the caseExactIA5Match, caseIgnoreIA5Match, (...)
> leading and trailing whitespace is ignored
except that a string consisting of only whitespace is treated
as a single space.
If leading whitespace were ignored in a space-only string, it would
be treated as the invalid string "", so the filter would evaluate to
undefined.
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Hallvard