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The following wikitext:

<pre>Foo
Bar
</pre>

yields the following HTML:

<pre><span typeof="mw:Placeholder">
</span>oo
Bar
</pre>

HTML with data-parsoid attributes included:
<pre data-parsoid="{&quot;stx&quot;:&quot;html&quot;,&quot;tsr&quot;:[0,5],&quot;bsp&quot;:[0,19],&quot;dsr&quot;:[0,19]}"><span typeof="mw:Placeholder" data-parsoid="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;\n&quot;,&quot;dsr&quot;:[5,6]}">
</span>oo
Bar
</pre>

It seems the first character is unconditionally being stripped and replaced with a newline placeholder, even if the first character isn't actually a newline.

I generally don't like the newline placeholder inside <pre>s, and I'd like to get rid of it if possible.