diff --git a/app/assets/javascripts/discourse/dialects/fix_simple_quotes.js b/app/assets/javascripts/discourse/dialects/fix_block_quotes.js
similarity index 100%
rename from app/assets/javascripts/discourse/dialects/fix_simple_quotes.js
rename to app/assets/javascripts/discourse/dialects/fix_block_quotes.js
diff --git a/app/assets/javascripts/external/better_markdown.js b/app/assets/javascripts/external/better_markdown.js
index 71bda524f13..dd5bc2d7f0f 100644
--- a/app/assets/javascripts/external/better_markdown.js
+++ b/app/assets/javascripts/external/better_markdown.js
@@ -754,7 +754,7 @@ Markdown.dialects.Gruber = {
       }
 
       // Strip off the leading "> " and re-process as a block.
-      var input = block.replace( /^> */gm, "" ),
+      var input = block.replace( /^> ?/gm, "" ),
           old_tree = this.tree,
           processedBlock = this.toTree( input, [ "blockquote" ] ),
           attr = extract_attr( processedBlock );