combining chars not well defined after blanks and cause more trouble after word split

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/it.class b/it.class
index 6ed5425..067b241 100644
--- a/it.class
+++ b/it.class
@@ -609,8 +609,8 @@ static function any2utf8($value, $errprefix = "")
 			list($value, $error) = array(preg_replace('/\xef\xb7[\x90-\xaf]|\xef\xbf[\xbe\xbf]/', " ", $value), "forbidden utf-8 character. input=$value");
 		$value = preg_replace('/\xc2\xad/', '', $value);	# Kill invisible soft hyphens
 		$value = normalizer_normalize($value, Normalizer::FORM_C);
-		if (preg_match('/^\pM/u', $value))	# Remove combining characters (e.g. U+0338 "Combining Long Solidus Overlay") at beginning of string
-			list($value, $error) = array(preg_replace('/^\pM+/u', "", $value), "combining character at beginning of string. input=$value");
+		if (preg_match('/(^| )\pM/u', $value)) # Remove combining characters (e.g. U+0338 "Combining Long Solidus Overlay") at start of after blank
+			list($value, $error) = array(preg_replace('/(^| )\pM+/u', '$1', $value), "combining character at beginning of string. input=$value");
 		if ($error && $errprefix)
 			it::error(array('title' => "$errprefix: " . trim($error)));
 	}