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I have a mixed app in development where some data is utf8 and some is ... well... not utf8 :-)

I have some spaces reported to be %A0 (non-breaking space in utf8) and it's messing up my lookups... it's obviously not a match for the "normal" PHP space character.

What to do? I can do a preg_replace on the urlencoded string and then unencode, but that is ridiculous to me. 

Thanks for any help.   -=john