[Lennert Daniëls]

@Kalle Kanisto: That’s actually a fairly good workaround. It sparked an even easier idea given the software I have access to:

I could use my font editor to remap the space character to some character that I don’t use, and perform a “find and replace all” script within After Effects.

Thanks to all! 🙂

Reported to Adobe, hopefully they take it seriously.

[Lennert Daniëls]

Cassius: Unfortunately, the Altcode didn’t work either… Same goes for copying the text from other applications.
Dave: Text needs to be editable, can’t go with stills. Also way to cumbersome, considering I need 100-200 perfectly aligned text layers.

Could someone test this problem in AE CC? I’d like to know if Adobe fixed it. Some fonts to test: “Impact Label” and “Top Secret“.

I’m now resorting to using a nasty combination of parenting and expressions to create shape layers around the text. A real brain challenge to set up, but sort of semi-automatic when it’s finally working.
This workaround also doubles my layer count, since I need one shape layer for every text layer. I’m estimating it’ll end up being about 400 layers total.

[Lennert Daniëls]

That would be a cumbersome workaround for 100+ text layers…

If you take a look at the font download page, you can see this “box” is actually part of the font.

EDIT: I’ve tested another font with a non-blank space character: “Top Secret“.
AE just uses a blank space instead of the font-specific space character. Works fine in other applications though…