diff --git a/test/test_utils.py b/test/test_utils.py
index 4cd818850..9e1808e6b 100644
--- a/test/test_utils.py
+++ b/test/test_utils.py
@@ -899,6 +899,7 @@ class TestUtil(unittest.TestCase):
     def test_clean_html(self):
         self.assertEqual(clean_html('a:\nb'), 'a: b')
         self.assertEqual(clean_html('a:\n   "b"'), 'a:    "b"')
+        self.assertEqual(clean_html('a<br>\xa0b'), 'a\nb')
 
     def test_intlist_to_bytes(self):
         self.assertEqual(