title: How to avoid the \xc2 character or &nbsp; in my code snippets?
body: <p>I've just started a <a href="http://blog.alexcoplan.co.uk/" rel="noreferrer">coding blog</a>, and I'm using the SyntaxHighlighter Evolved Wordpress plugin for Syntax Highlighting of my snippets.</p>
  
  <p>I've just about finished writing a Pythonic post, and wanted to test out my code snippets before publishing.</p>
  
  <p>If you double click code from inside my snippets, the plugin will stop highlighting the code, allowing you to select it as plain text. However, if I copy and paste some Python code from my snippets, it includes <code>\xc2</code> or <code>&amp;nbsp;</code> chracters in. This causes Python to winge about the encoding:</p>
  
  <blockquote>
    <p>SyntaxError: Non-ASCII character '\xc2' in file ex2.py on line 3, but no encoding declared; see <a href="http://www.python.org/peps/pep-0263.html" rel="noreferrer">http://www.python.org/peps/pep-0263.html</a> for details</p>
  </blockquote>
  
  <p>I don't particularly want to be declaring encodings for every single Python snippet I write - and I don't even know if this will solve the issue.</p>
  
  <p>The best solution would of course to be to get my plugin to not use <code>&amp;nbsp;</code> characters in the plain text version. Or would it?</p>
  
  <p>Does anyone have any ideas as to how I can get around this issue?</p>