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# \u00A0 is a Unicode non-breaking space and \s should match it if everything is Unicode-# enabled.
> irb
>> RUBY_VERSION
=> "1.9.1"
>> "\u00A0"
=> " "
>> s = _
=> " "
>> s.bytes.to_a
=> [194, 160]
>> s =~ /\s/
=> nil
>> s.encoding
=> #<Encoding:UTF-8>
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