diff --git a/llama.cpp b/llama.cpp
index 58e8ecc4c..69f648a50 100644
--- a/llama.cpp
+++ b/llama.cpp
@@ -13377,16 +13377,25 @@ static void tokenizer_st_partition(const llama_vocab & vocab, std::forward_list<
 
                     // right
                     if (match + special_token.length() < raw_text_base_offset + raw_text_base_length) {
-                        const int64_t right_reminder_offset = match + special_token.length();
-                        const int64_t right_reminder_length = raw_text_base_length - ((match - raw_text_base_offset) + special_token.length());
-                        buffer.emplace_after(it, raw_text, right_reminder_offset, right_reminder_length);
+                        int64_t right_reminder_offset = match + special_token.length();
+                        int64_t right_reminder_length = raw_text_base_length - ((match - raw_text_base_offset) + special_token.length());
+
+                        if (data.attribs & LLAMA_TOKEN_ATTRIB_RSTRIP) {
+                            while (right_reminder_length > 0 && isspace(raw_text[right_reminder_offset])) {
+                                right_reminder_offset++;
+                                right_reminder_length--;
+                            }
+                        }
+
+                        if (right_reminder_length > 0) {
+                            buffer.emplace_after(it, raw_text, right_reminder_offset, right_reminder_length);
+                            it++;
+                        }
 
 #ifdef PRETOKENIZERDEBUG
                         LLAMA_LOG_WARN("FR: (%ld %ld) '%s'\n", right_reminder_offset, right_reminder_length, raw_text->substr(right_reminder_offset, right_reminder_length).c_str());
 #endif
 
-                        it++;
-
                         if (source == 0) {
                             buffer.erase_after(buffer.before_begin());
                         } else {
@@ -13432,9 +13441,7 @@ static std::vector<llama_vocab::id> llama_tokenize_internal(const llama_vocab &
                 // tokenizer.encode('', add_special_tokens=True)  returns [1]
                 // tokenizer.encode('', add_special_tokens=False) returns []
 
-                static const bool rtrim = true;  //TODO: as param
                 bool is_prev_special = false;
-                bool special_token_rtrim = false;
 
                 if (add_special && vocab.special_add_bos != 0) {
                     GGML_ASSERT(vocab.special_bos_id != -1);
@@ -13444,25 +13451,8 @@ static std::vector<llama_vocab::id> llama_tokenize_internal(const llama_vocab &
 
                 for (const auto & fragment : fragment_buffer) {
                     if (fragment.type == FRAGMENT_BUFFER_VARIANT_TYPE_RAW_TEXT) {
-                        // without adding this leading whitespace, we do not get the same results as the original tokenizer
-
-                        // TODO: It's likely possible to get rid of this string copy entirely
-                        //  by modifying llm_tokenizer_x to operate with string offsets like pre-tokenizer
-                        //  and passing 'add space prefix' as bool argument
-                        //
                         auto raw_text = fragment.raw_text.substr(fragment.offset, fragment.length);
 
-                        if (special_token_rtrim) {
-                            size_t num_whitespaces = 0;
-                            while (isspace(raw_text[num_whitespaces])) {
-                                num_whitespaces++;
-                            }
-                            if (num_whitespaces == raw_text.size()) {
-                                continue; // skip if all whitespaces
-                            }
-                            raw_text = raw_text.substr(num_whitespaces);
-                        }
-
                         if (vocab.add_space_prefix) {
                             if (!output.size() || is_prev_special) {  // prefix with space if first token
                                 raw_text = " " + raw_text;
@@ -13478,11 +13468,6 @@ static std::vector<llama_vocab::id> llama_tokenize_internal(const llama_vocab &
                     } else { // if (fragment.type == FRAGMENT_BUFFER_VARIANT_TYPE_TOKEN)
                         output.push_back(fragment.token);
                         is_prev_special = true;
-                        // phi-3 special tokens without rtrim, works fine for llama-spm too
-                        special_token_rtrim = rtrim
-                            && fragment.token != vocab.special_bos_id
-                            && fragment.token != vocab.special_unk_id
-                            && fragment.token != vocab.special_eos_id;
                     }
                 }