PlayerSide anomalous behaviour with certain leading special characters

[riverwanderer]

To reproduce, define a PlayerSide with a leading "." or ":".... select that side; notice that the leading character has been dropped (confirm from the debug console: /property show PlayerSide).

Embedded special characters are not dropped. Underscore is not dropped, possibly others work or don't work.

Further special case: a PlayerSide with a single leading space is truncated from the right.
e.g. " Test" becomes " Tes".

Raising this issue to confirm the expected behaviour. Leading space behaviour is clearly a bug but dropping some leading special character or other might be usefully exploited (e.g. issue #12632).

[riverwanderer]

Above report based on Dev version of C&C Nap module. However, not reproduced when testing leading "." for PR #12636.

[riverwanderer]

Seems to be a transient editor error that is fixed if the module is saved and re-opened.