Comment 2 for bug 1332651

I would be in favor of disallowing spaces in barcodes across the board and having all barcode input boxes, including the barcode search box in the opac, strip any spaces that may be entered.

If there are legitimate cases where patron or item barcodes must be recorded with spaces, I would like to see an option to disallow spaces across the board.

For evergreen installations that don't have a need to allow spaces in barcodes, the ability to disallow them entirely would avoid many headaches caused by inadvertently introducing a space when checking in items, or searching for items and patrons by barcode.