Lines that start with whitespaces break HTML encoding

I’m using the 3.7 version on WordPress 6.4.3, and when I try to use the following code block:

[code lang="java" gutter="false" highlight="11-17"]
@Entity(name = "Post")
@Table(name = "post")
public class Post {

    @Id
    private Long id;

    @Column(length = 100)
    private String title;

    @Column(name = "published_on")
    @TimeZoneStorage(TimeZoneStorageType.COLUMN)
    @TimeZoneColumn(
        name = "published_on_offset",
        columnDefinition = "smallint unsigned"
    )
    private OffsetDateTime publishedOn; 
}
[/code]

It is rendered like this:

@Entity(name = "Post")
@Table(name = "post")
public class Post {
 
<pre><code>@Id
private Long id;
 
@Column(length = 100)
private String title;
 
@Column(name = &amp;quot;published_on&amp;quot;)
@TimeZoneStorage(TimeZoneStorageType.COLUMN)
@TimeZoneColumn(
    name = &amp;quot;published_on_offset&amp;quot;,
    columnDefinition = &amp;quot;smallint unsigned&amp;quot;
)
private OffsetDateTime publishedOn;
</code></pre>
 
}

The problem seems to be caused by the new lines that preceed the lines starting with the space characters.

Currently, the only workaround is to add the \x{A0} invisible Unicode character on the new lines that preceed the lines starting with the space characters, like this:

[code lang="java" gutter="false" highlight="11-17"]
@Entity(name = "Post")
@Table(name = "post")
public class Post {
?
    @Id
    private Long id;
?
    @Column(length = 100)
    private String title;
?
    @Column(name = "published_on")
    @TimeZoneStorage(TimeZoneStorageType.COLUMN)
    @TimeZoneColumn(
        name = "published_on_offset",
        columnDefinition = "smallint unsigned"
    )
    private OffsetDateTime publishedOn; 
}
[/code]