Issue #7154 has been updated by duerst (Martin Dürst). Status changed from Open to Closed My understanding is that this is a feature. See above for explanation. I hope somebody can provide the feedback to http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2588942/convert-non-breaking-spaces-to-spaces-in-ruby. ---------------------------------------- Bug #7154: For whatever reason \s doesn't match \u00a0. https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/7154#change-30686 Author: t0d0r (Todor Dragnev) Status: Closed Priority: Normal Assignee: Category: core Target version: ruby -v: 1.9.3p286 The problem is already explained here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2588942/convert-non-breaking-spaces-to-spaces-in-ruby I just hit it today. -- http://bugs.ruby-lang.org/