bart is right -- this is a cleaner, safer way: 
#!/usr/bin/perl -w

use warnings;
use strict;

binmode(STDIN,":utf8");
binmode(STDOUT,":utf8");

while(<>)
{
# if you just want to get rid of non-breaking spaces, do this:
    tr/\xA0/ /;

# if you really want to change every kind of whitespace and every stri
+ng
# of two or more whitespace to a single space, do this instead:
    s/\s+/ /g;  # in utf8 strings, \s matches non-breaking space
    s/ $/\n/;   # (puts back the \n at the end of the line)

    print;
}

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(updated to remove incorrect use of "g" modifier on tr///)

In reply to Re: A Regex for no-break space Unicode Entities by graff
in thread A Regex for no-break space Unicode Entities by kettle

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