Spaces following quotes disappear

[Rick Charon]

I have a line that includes a double quotation mark followed by 5 spaces,
and then some text, like so:
"     global"
when it is converted with markdown, the spaces disappear, so it results in
"global"
Is there a way to keep these spaces in there?
Thanks for any help.
Rick
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