I am formatting numbers to string using the following format string \"# #.##\", at some point I need to turn back these number strings like (1 234 567) into something like 1234
The answer is to look in Unicode Code Charts - where you'll find the Latin-1 supplement chart; this shows that U+00A0 (160 as per your title, not 167 as per the body) is a non-breaking space.