Spark View Engine Error Entity NBSP Not Defined

I'm just starting to work with the Spark View Engine in a very mature MVC2 application. I receive numerous build errors stating

Entity nbsp not defined

directing me to a line of code similar to

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Is the non-breaking space not recognized by Spark? If not, what do I use as a replacement?

Thanks much开发者_开发技巧!