RG used to use a utility called tableizer.
This created HTML from a copy and pasted Excel sheet.
I figure HC worked out that accepting HTML into the blog directly might increase the workload of their technical team.
I pasted excel directly into the blog.
The   was insert by the parsing on the HC blog I think.
It seemed to occur when there were two or more spaces together.
If I remove consecutive spaces, it seems to work fine.
Doesn't make sense though, that the nbsp is added when you post, but when the post is interpreted into HTML, it adds the literal back.