@@ -77,6 +77,11 @@ def test_ascii(self):
 
         wlog.stop()
 
+    def test_whitespace(self):
+        self.assertEqual(" ", self.unidecode(_chr(0xa0)))
+        self.assertEqual(" ", self.unidecode(_chr(0x2000)))
+        self.assertEqual(" ", self.unidecode(_chr(0x3000)))
+
     def test_bmp(self):
         for n in range(0,0x10000):
             # skip over surrogate pairs, which throw a warning
 
@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@
 """
 import warnings
 from sys import version_info
+import re
 
 Cache = {}
 
@@ -74,10 +75,14 @@ def _unidecode(string):
         if codepoint < 0x80: # Basic ASCII
             retval.append(str(char))
             continue
-        
+
         if codepoint > 0xeffff:
             continue # Characters in Private Use Area and above are ignored
 
+        if re.match(r"\s",char,re.UNICODE):
+            retval.append(" ")
+            continue
+
         if 0xd800 <= codepoint <= 0xdfff:
             warnings.warn(  "Surrogate character %r will be ignored. "
                             "You might be using a narrow Python build." % (char,),