TickerText.getCharactersVisible() doesn't count spaces but TickerText.getCharactersMaximum() does

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What steps will reproduce the problem?
1.Create a Ticker text object and use a string with spaces
2. Then try using getCharactersVisible()and getCharactersMaximum()
3.

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
getCharactersVisible()and getCharactersMaximum()should be equal after a fixed 
period of time

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
commit ed18d7a685bdcc54855ecbb77488e79d321c1200 on windows 7

Please provide any additional information below.
Also, it would be nice if you could set the Max characters for TickerText

Original issue reported on code.google.com by rion...@gmail.com on 26 Feb 2012 at 12:05