diff --git a/fanficfare/adapters/adapter_fireflyfansnet.py b/fanficfare/adapters/adapter_fireflyfansnet.py
index a6abba78..160815d7 100644
--- a/fanficfare/adapters/adapter_fireflyfansnet.py
+++ b/fanficfare/adapters/adapter_fireflyfansnet.py
@@ -133,7 +133,7 @@ class FireFlyFansNetSiteAdapter(BaseSiteAdapter):
         # which is usualy FireFly on this site, but I'm going to get them
         # anyway.a
         category = soup.find('span', {'id': 'MainContent_txtItemDetails'})
-        category = stripHTML(unicode(category).replace(u"\xc2\xa0", ' '))
+        category = stripHTML(unicode(category).replace(u"\xa0", u' '))
         metad = category.split('    ')
         for meta in metad:
             if ":" in meta:
diff --git a/fanficfare/adapters/adapter_fireflypopulliorg.py b/fanficfare/adapters/adapter_fireflypopulliorg.py
index a49b8abc..07539ed1 100644
--- a/fanficfare/adapters/adapter_fireflypopulliorg.py
+++ b/fanficfare/adapters/adapter_fireflypopulliorg.py
@@ -186,7 +186,7 @@ class FireflyPopulliOrgSiteAdapter(BaseSiteAdapter):
                         # There alot of nbsp's (non broken spaces) in here, so I'm going to remove them
                         # I'm also getting rid of the bold tags and the nextline characters to make it 
                         # easier to get the information below
-                        story = repr(story).replace(b'\\xa0', '').replace('  ',' ').replace(
+                        story = repr(story).replace(u'\\xa0', '').replace('  ',' ').replace(
                             '<b>','').replace('</b>','').replace(r'\n','')
                         story = self.make_soup(story).find('p')
                         story_a = story.find('a')
@@ -319,7 +319,7 @@ class FireflyPopulliOrgSiteAdapter(BaseSiteAdapter):
         # the end  of the section, which has alot of extraneous things, then adding my own div
         # wrapper, recreating the soup, then getting that div from the soup again, before sending to
         # the writers.
-        story = repr(story).replace(b'\\xa0', '').replace('  ',' ').replace(r'\n','').strip()
+        story = repr(story).replace(u'\\xa0', '').replace('  ',' ').replace(r'\n','').strip()
         story = story[12:]
         story = story[:story.find('<p align="center" class="comments">Please <')]
         story = '<div class="chaptertext">' + story + '</div>'
diff --git a/fanficfare/adapters/adapter_lotrgficcom.py b/fanficfare/adapters/adapter_lotrgficcom.py
index d1e32d81..5d75e9fc 100644
--- a/fanficfare/adapters/adapter_lotrgficcom.py
+++ b/fanficfare/adapters/adapter_lotrgficcom.py
@@ -286,7 +286,7 @@ class LOTRgficComAdapter(BaseSiteAdapter):
             #<br/>
             #</p>
         ## we'll have to remove the non-breaking spaces to get this to work.
-        metad = unicode(metad).replace(u"\xc2\xa0",'').replace('\n','')
+        metad = unicode(metad).replace(u"\xa0",'').replace('\n','')
         for txt in metad.split('<br/>'):
             if 'Challenges:' in txt:
                 txt = txt.replace('Challenges:','').strip()
diff --git a/fanficfare/adapters/adapter_wwwarea52hkhnet.py b/fanficfare/adapters/adapter_wwwarea52hkhnet.py
index b49503f1..b83d06d4 100644
--- a/fanficfare/adapters/adapter_wwwarea52hkhnet.py
+++ b/fanficfare/adapters/adapter_wwwarea52hkhnet.py
@@ -191,7 +191,7 @@ class WWWArea52HKHNetAdapter(BaseSiteAdapter):
 
             ## I've seen a non-breaking space in some of the storyblocks
             ## so we are going to remove them.
-            series =  stripHTML(unicode(series.renderContents()).replace(u"\xc2\xa0",'')).strip()
+            series =  stripHTML(unicode(series.renderContents()).replace(u"\xa0",'')).strip()
             if len(series) > 0:
                 self.story.setMetadata('series',series)
 
diff --git a/fanficfare/adapters/adapter_wwwutopiastoriescom.py b/fanficfare/adapters/adapter_wwwutopiastoriescom.py
index 1f7882ef..cad6b565 100644
--- a/fanficfare/adapters/adapter_wwwutopiastoriescom.py
+++ b/fanficfare/adapters/adapter_wwwutopiastoriescom.py
@@ -147,7 +147,7 @@ class WWWUtopiastoriesComAdapter(BaseSiteAdapter):
 
 
         for detail in soup.findAll('li'):
-            det = unicode(detail).replace(u"\xc2\xa0",'')
+            det = unicode(detail).replace(u"\xa0",'')
             heading = stripHTML(det).split(' - ')[0]
             text = stripHTML(det).replace(heading+' - ','')
             if 'Author' in heading: