A bit more on this - I looked at the Issues log for Sigil and discovered the following under Issue 1791:
All are replaced by normal space when switching from Book View to Code View: back in November 2012:
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Project Member #3 john@nachtimwald.com
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Are the characters being changed to their unicode equivalents which appear the same as a space but are a different code point? I believe there was code in 0.5.3 that converted some characters to entities that was removed due to user demand.
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So it looks like Sigil used to do the conversion but this was removed.
Looking at it logically it really isn't Sigil's job to convert things unless asked to. It's an editor.
BobC