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The pattern I use for TV shows in the sorting tab is: %sn/%sn - %0sx%0e - .%ext
but the whitespace before the extension is ignored and the result is "Show Name/Show Name - 01x05 -.avi" instead of "Show Name/Show Name - 01x05 - .avi".

This means that I always have to add a whitespace before pasting the episode name which is slightly annoying.
It worked a while ago, or maybe it only worked on windows, I'm not exactly sure(I really shouldn't have been lazy and reported those as soon as I noticed them).

To circumvent that, I tried %sn/%sn - %0sx%0e -{ }.%ext, but the result is the same.

These extra spaces are removed because on some OS they cause problems.
Also, it's not what people generally want.

Ahh, so there's no chance of me being able to have this fixed. I would imagine people would want the template to be what they actually type, but if it cause problem on some os, it's understandable that this behavior got changed.

I guess I'll have to try to find a way to rename them automatically with the episode name then.

You can use the %fn replacement, which will give you the original file name.
That often contains the episode name.
Just curious, where do you get the episode name from?

The episode name very rarely is in the filename, at least in the feeds I used. I was using tvbinz.net until it closed recently and now I'm temporarily using nzbindex.com until I find a better one since this one often catch the joke name of the series.

I get the episodes name manually from thetvdb.com. I know they have an xml API that would make it possible to fetch the episode name automatically, but it's a bit out of my competence to create a script for this since my programming skills are a bit rusty. I'm kind of surprised nobody else though of making one.