jQuery Grid Plugin - jqGrid

diff --git a/js/grid.base.js b/js/grid.base.js
index a77041b..e08772e 100755
--- a/js/grid.base.js
+++ b/js/grid.base.js
@@ -32,8 +32,13 @@ $.extend($.jgrid,{
        stripHtml : function(v) {
                v = v+"";
                var regexp = /<("[^"]*"|'[^']*'|[^'">])*>/gi;
-               if(v) { return v.replace(regexp,"");}
-               else {return v;}
+               if (v) {
+                       v = v.replace(regexp,"");
+                       return (v && v !== '&nbsp;' && v !== '&#160;') ? v : "";
+               }
+               else {
+                       return v;
+               }
        },
        stringToDoc : function (xmlString) {
                var xmlDoc;