This also didn't work:
<script language="JavaScript"  type="text/javascript"
src="login.js">&#160;</script>

I haven't been following this thread, so please ignore this posting if
my understanding of your problem is completely clueless.

If you're trying to escape   in a document encoded as
UTF-8, you have to use Unicode escaping of the UTF-8
representation of the entity. In this case,   is equal to
 , and   encoded as UTF-8 is \u00A0.

Regards,
Brian