Summary

When formatting is applied to a block of text that starts or ends with a whitespace the saved content shows a wiki markup 

Environment

JIRA with a Rich Text Editor enabled.

Wiki Rendering is enabled for the text fields

Steps to Reproduce

1. Type in some text into a text field like

   The text to markup

2. Select ' text' from the content that was just entered.
3. Select bold from a toolbar 
4. Text is now bold:

   The text to markup

5. Save the changes.

Expected Results

The text is displayed as was formatted, i.e.:

The text to markup

Actual Results

The markup characters are in the text instead of actual formatting

The* text* to markup

Workaround

Do not select whitespace when formatting the text.