See attached archive:

— index.htm // source file
— index.pdf // converted by `$ prince index.htm` command

“Blah Blah Blah” words in index.htm are divided with non-breaking space, but in result index.pdf they are replaced with  (U+00C2) symbol and normal space.

But   entity works fine though.

1. nbsp.zip‎ 12.7 kB

The HTML parser we are using in Prince is not fully HTML5 compliant, so you will need to change the charset declaration back to the old style like this:

<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html;charset=UTF-8">

We are working on a HTML5 parser for inclusion in a future release of Prince.

We have now released Prince 9, which uses our new HTML5 parser with support for the new charset declaration syntax:

<meta charset="UTF-8">

(Although in this case it is unnecessary, as UTF-8 is the default encoding).