If there are leading/trailing white spaces, just strip them, or...?

how are you creating those names now? with links?

  --Ethan McCutchen.....Thu Jan 14 18:54:10 -0800 2010

Maybe via import? I created the ticket in response to the "spaces are the enemy" email from Lew.

  --John Abbe.....Fri Jan 15 12:31:42 -0800 2010

moving to low priority until we can reliably reproduce problem.

  --Ethan McCutchen.....Thu Jan 06 10:11:13 -0800 2011

closing. re-open or re-ticket if reproduced.

  --Ethan McCutchen.....Thu Dec 01 14:25:23 -0800 2011