Right aligned UITextField spacebar does not advance cursor in iOS 7

Question

In my iPad app, I noticed different behavior between iOS 6 and iOS 7 with UITextFields.

I create the UITextField as follows:

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Answer 1

Fix right aligned text space removing by replacing space with non-breaking space

- (BOOL)textField:(UITextField *)textField shouldChangeCharactersInRange:(NSRange)range replacementString:(NSString *)string
{
    if (textField.textAlignment == NSTextAlignmentRight) {
        NSString *text = [textField.text stringByReplacingCharactersInRange:range withString:string];
        textField.text = [text stringByReplacingOccurrencesOfString:@" " withString:@"\u00a0"];

        UITextPosition *startPos = [textField positionFromPosition:textField.beginningOfDocument offset:range.location + string.length];
        UITextRange *textRange = [textField textRangeFromPosition:startPos toPosition:startPos];
        textField.selectedTextRange = textRange;

        return NO;
    }

    return YES;
}

And vice versa

- (void)textFieldDidEndEditing:(UITextField *)textField
{
    // Replacing non-breaking spaces with spaces and remove obsolete data
    NSString *textString = [[textField.text stringByReplacingOccurrencesOfString:@"\u00a0" withString:@" "] stringByTrimmingCharactersInSet:[NSCharacterSet whitespaceAndNewlineCharacterSet]];
    textField.text = textString;
}