Leading blank lines in codeblocks ignored?

[Andrea Censi]

On 12/31/06, John Gruber <gruber at fedora.net> wrote:

> Andrea Censi <andrea at censi.org> wrote on 12/31/06 at 10:12 AM:

>

> > Is there any way in Markdown to indicate a code-block with a leading blank

> > line?

>

> Not really, but you could fake it with, say, a literal

> non-breaking space.


I don't understand.

You mean like this?
---
Paragraph

<tab>&nbsp;
<tab>Second line of code block.
---
I thought that Markdown should render the "&nbsp;" as it is.

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