replace NBSP symbols to space

[trianon1983]

I am converting the html of a confluence page to asciidoc fotmat. After conversion, the text contains NBSP characters. Therefore, there is a need to use a filter that would replace these characters with a regular space or empty (if this character in the end). Can anyone help create such a filter. I think it could be useful to many.

input:

output:

I tried to write it myself, but I don't have experience writing filters in lua and enough time to do it
`
function Inlines (inlines)
for i = 1, #inlines do
local currentEl = inlines[i]
strTxt = currentEl.text
strType = currentEl.t
if currentEl.t == 'Str' then
if string.find(strTxt, '\160') ~= nil then
print(strTxt)
print(currentEl)
inlines[i].text = string.gsub(strTxt, '\160', '')
print(strTxt)
print(inlines[i])
end
end
end
return inlines
end

return {
{Inlines = Inlines},
}
`

1. when I did a simple replacement of such characters, a new character appeared: '\65533'
2. and I know that a space is a separate element inlines and I need to somehow insert it into the collection

Someone can help me?

[tarleb]

You could try something like

function Str (s)
  return pandoc.Str(s.text:gsub('\160', ''))
end

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