Index: wp-includes/default-widgets.php
===================================================================
--- wp-includes/default-widgets.php	(revision 17936)
+++ wp-includes/default-widgets.php	(working copy)
@@ -333,7 +333,7 @@
 
 	function widget( $args, $instance ) {
 		extract($args);
-		$title = apply_filters('widget_title', empty($instance['title']) ? ' ' : $instance['title'], $instance, $this->id_base);
+		$title = apply_filters('widget_title', empty($instance['title']) ? ' ' : $instance['title'], $instance, $this->id_base);
 		echo $before_widget;
 		if ( $title )
 			echo $before_title . $title . $after_title;
@@ -405,7 +405,7 @@
 
 		<textarea class="widefat" rows="16" cols="20" id="<?php echo $this->get_field_id('text'); ?>" name="<?php echo $this->get_field_name('text'); ?>"><?php echo $text; ?></textarea>
 
-		<p><input id="<?php echo $this->get_field_id('filter'); ?>" name="<?php echo $this->get_field_name('filter'); ?>" type="checkbox" <?php checked(isset($instance['filter']) ? $instance['filter'] : 0); ?> />&nbsp;<label for="<?php echo $this->get_field_id('filter'); ?>"><?php _e('Automatically add paragraphs'); ?></label></p>
+		<p><input id="<?php echo $this->get_field_id('filter'); ?>" name="<?php echo $this->get_field_name('filter'); ?>" type="checkbox" <?php checked(isset($instance['filter']) ? $instance['filter'] : 0); ?> />&#160;<label for="<?php echo $this->get_field_id('filter'); ?>"><?php _e('Automatically add paragraphs'); ?></label></p>
 <?php
 	}
 }
@@ -820,11 +820,11 @@
 		$desc = str_replace( array("\n", "\r"), ' ', esc_attr( strip_tags( @html_entity_decode( $item->get_description(), ENT_QUOTES, get_option('blog_charset') ) ) ) );
 		$desc = wp_html_excerpt( $desc, 360 );
 
-		// Append ellipsis. Change existing [...] to [&hellip;].
+		// Append ellipsis. Change existing [...] to [&#8230;].
 		if ( '[...]' == substr( $desc, -5 ) )
-			$desc = substr( $desc, 0, -5 ) . '[&hellip;]';
-		elseif ( '[&hellip;]' != substr( $desc, -10 ) )
-			$desc .= ' [&hellip;]';
+			$desc = substr( $desc, 0, -5 ) . '[&#8230;]';
+		elseif ( '[&#8230;]' != substr( $desc, -10 ) )
+			$desc .= ' [&#8230;]';
 
 		$desc = esc_html( $desc );