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