CKEditor - if you enter only 1 space, then the getData() function will return an empty string. Can this be fixed somehow?

Question

CKEditor

Hello. In my JS code, the number of characters entered by the user in CKEditor is counted and displayed on the screen.
If you enter only one space (and nothing else), then the getData method will return an empty string (hence, the number of characters in it is 0). If you then press the space again, for example (or enter any other character), then immediately 2 characters. It's not very pretty.
This happens not only with the getData method, but also if you take val() from the textarea to which the CKEditor is bound.
How to fix it?

Answer 1

You do not need editor.getData(), firstly, it is quite heavy, and secondly, not for this task. You need something likeeditor.editable().getText()