Newlines in SEO description get replaced with zero whitespace

[efung]

For a post in which I have not defined my own description, I rely on the page.excerpt to populate the seo_description variable in the seo.html include file.

However, I have noticed that if my first paragraph has newlines, the generated description does not have whitespace where the newline used to be. Sample first paragraph of post body:

I made a superb
dessert (in my humble opinion, but also everyone who tasted it). It was high
effort, but also high reward. Read on to see how I made it.

Generated description (from HTML head):

<meta name="description" content="I made a superbdessert (in my humble opinion, but also everyone who tasted it). It was higheffort, but also high reward. Read on to see how I made it.">

Note that there is no space between "superb" and "dessert", nor between "high" and "effort".

[efung]

One possible fix in seo.html is to replace the use of the Liquid filter strip_newlines with the suggestion in this StackOverflow answer, namely:

newline_to_br | strip_newlines | replace: '<br />', ' '