Spaces on right aligned text

Our users are trying to use spaces as padding for right aligned text but it isn't working.
I did a test with the same text in two different right aligned text holders, the second container contains the text that was in the first container as well as several non-breaking spaces at the end. When I debug the results of StringTextLineFactory.createTextLines the widths of both text lines were the same.
This seems like it is a FTE issue since FTE has no concept of right aligned text I could see it just dropping off extra spaces at the end of the text but that is just a guess.
It also looks like RichEditableText does the same thing. In this video i enter "asdf" then a bunch of spaces and it isn't until I enter another character that the space characters are recognized. http://screencast.com/t/NGMzZmNk

We do have a control for using paddingEndIndent but users will be users and they wanted to use spaces. I didn't realize that this functions the same way as the major text engines.
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