diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index c3051a12a..93c6675f3 100755
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -8,6 +8,8 @@ $Source$
 2002-08-01 Robin Johnson  <robbat2@users.sourceforge.net>
     * scripts/decode_bug.php3:
         - Improvements and PHP3 fixes thanks to Loic
+    * libraries/string.lib.php3:
+        - Detect U+00A0 as whitespace
 
 2002-08-01 Marc Delisle  <lem9@users.sourceforge.net>
     * lang/afrikaans: new language
diff --git a/libraries/string.lib.php3 b/libraries/string.lib.php3
index 9df06d241..e366f1738 100644
--- a/libraries/string.lib.php3
+++ b/libraries/string.lib.php3
@@ -216,9 +216,11 @@ if (!defined('PMA_STR_LIB_INCLUDED')) {
         $ord_space = 32; //ord(' ')
         $ord_tab   = 9; //ord('\t')
         $ord_CR    = 13; //ord('\n')
+        $ord_NOBR  = 160; //ord('U+00A0);
         $ord_c     = ord($c);
 
-        return (($ord_c == $ord_space)
+        return (($ord_c == $ord_space) 
+                || ($ord_c == $ord_NOBR)
                 || PMA_STR_numberInRangeInclusive($ord_c, $ord_tab, $ord_CR));
     } // end of the "PMA_STR_isSpace()" function