diff --git a/src/public/app/widgets/attribute_editor.js b/src/public/app/widgets/attribute_editor.js
index e0d46352c..d1113c708 100644
--- a/src/public/app/widgets/attribute_editor.js
+++ b/src/public/app/widgets/attribute_editor.js
@@ -311,7 +311,8 @@ export default class AttributeEditorWidget extends TabAwareWidget {
 
     getPreprocessedData() {
         const str = this.textEditor.getData()
-            .replace(/<a[^>]+href="(#[A-Za-z0-9/]*)"[^>]*>[^<]*<\/a>/g, "$1");
+            .replace(/<a[^>]+href="(#[A-Za-z0-9/]*)"[^>]*>[^<]*<\/a>/g, "$1")
+            .replace(/&nbsp;/g, " "); // otherwise .text() below outputs non-breaking space in unicode
 
         return $("<div>").html(str).text();
     }