iPhone: Disable the “double-tap spacebar for .” shortcut?

Question

By default, if you tap the spacebar twice on the iPhone or iPad, instead of getting \"  \" (two spaces), you get \". \" (a period followed by a space). Is the

Answer 1

A simpler solution that I have found to work for a UITextView is as follows:

- (BOOL)textView:(UITextView *)textView shouldChangeTextInRange:(NSRange)range replacementText:(NSString *)text {
    if ([text isEqualToString:@". "] && range.length == 1) {
        NSMutableAttributedString *attributedString = [textView.attributedText mutableCopy];
        [attributedString replaceCharactersInRange:range withString:@" "];
        textView.attributedText = attributedString;
        textView.selectedRange = NSMakeRange(range.location + 1, 0);

        return NO;
    }
    return YES;
}

This allows multiple spaces to be entered repeatedly and also handles attributed text. The only case I have found it to fail with is when pasting a period and space with a single character already selected.