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

I've used Jack Song's answer for Swift 2 for a while until I realized that the non-braking spaces make problems when rendered in HTML elsewhere, as well as line breaking gets messy in the UITextView itself. So, I've improved the solution to have the non-bracking characters cleaned right away.

func textField(textField: UITextField, shouldChangeCharactersInRange range: NSRange, replacementString string: String) -> Bool {
    if (textField == self.desiredTextField) {
       var oldString = textView.text!
       oldString = oldString.stringByReplacingOccurrencesOfString("\u{00a0}", withString: " ");
       let newRange = oldString.startIndex.advancedBy(range.location)..