diff --git a/oxutils/html.py b/oxutils/html.py
index 1856a4d..6ed63f1 100644
--- a/oxutils/html.py
+++ b/oxutils/html.py
@@ -142,7 +142,7 @@ def htmldecode(text):
       return uchr(name2codepoint[entity])
     else:
       return match.group(0)
-  return charrefpat.sub(entitydecode, text)
+  return charrefpat.sub(entitydecode, text).replace(u'\xa0', ' ')
 
 def highlight(text, query, hlClass="hl"):
   if query: