diff --git a/src/lyric_auto_edit.cpp b/src/lyric_auto_edit.cpp
index 992640c2..ccf1fb8b 100644
--- a/src/lyric_auto_edit.cpp
+++ b/src/lyric_auto_edit.cpp
@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ static std::optional<LyricData> RemoveRepeatedSpaces(const LyricData& lyrics)
         size_t search_start = 0;
         while(search_start < line.text.length())
         {
-            size_t next_space = line.text.find_first_of(_T(' '), search_start);
+            size_t next_space = find_first_whitespace(line.text, search_start);
 
             // NOTE: If the line was empty we would not enter this loop.
             //       We subtract 1 from the length to avoid overflowing when next_space == npos == (size_t)-1
@@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ static std::optional<LyricData> RemoveRepeatedSpaces(const LyricData& lyrics)
             }
 
             size_t erase_start = next_space + 1;
-            size_t erase_end = line.text.find_first_not_of(_T(' '), erase_start);
+            size_t erase_end = find_first_nonwhitespace(line.text, erase_start);
 
             if((erase_end != std::tstring::npos) && (erase_end > erase_start))
             {
@@ -90,7 +90,7 @@ static std::optional<LyricData> RemoveRepeatedBlankLines(const LyricData& lyrics
     LyricData new_lyrics = lyrics;
     for(auto iter = new_lyrics.lines.begin(); iter != new_lyrics.lines.end(); /*Omitted*/)
     {
-        size_t first_non_space = iter->text.find_first_not_of(' ');
+        size_t first_non_space = find_first_nonwhitespace(iter->text);
         bool is_blank = (first_non_space == std::tstring::npos);
         if(is_blank && previous_blank)
         {
diff --git a/src/ui_lyric_editor.cpp b/src/ui_lyric_editor.cpp
index fef84e93..243f6389 100644
--- a/src/ui_lyric_editor.cpp
+++ b/src/ui_lyric_editor.cpp
@@ -326,7 +326,7 @@ void LyricEditor::SelectLineWithTimestampGreaterOrEqual(double threshold_timesta
             line_buffer_len); // EM_GETLINE reads the first word as the number of characters in the buffer
         LRESULT chars_copied = SendDlgItemMessage(IDC_LYRIC_TEXT, EM_GETLINE, i, (LPARAM)line_buffer);
         std::string linestr = from_tstring(std::tstring_view { line_buffer, (size_t)chars_copied });
-        if(linestr.empty() || ((linestr.length() == 1) && (linestr[0] == ' '))) continue;
+        if(linestr.empty() || ((linestr.length() == 1) && is_char_whitespace(linestr[0]))) continue;
         if(parsers::lrc::is_tag_line(linestr)) continue;
 
         double line_timestamp = parsers::lrc::get_line_first_timestamp(linestr);
diff --git a/src/ui_lyrics_externalwindow.cpp b/src/ui_lyrics_externalwindow.cpp
index 2d1a6116..4a5ba638 100644
--- a/src/ui_lyrics_externalwindow.cpp
+++ b/src/ui_lyrics_externalwindow.cpp
@@ -427,8 +427,8 @@ static int _WrapSimpleLyricsLineToRect(D2DTextRenderContext& render,
     // Remove trailing whitespace
     // We do this once now (before allocating anything dependent on string length)
     // and then since we don't ever move the "end" of the string, we assume that line
-    // doesn't end in a space for the rest of the function.
-    size_t last_not_space = line.find_last_not_of(_T(' '));
+    // doesn't end in whitespace for the rest of the function.
+    size_t last_not_space = find_last_nonwhitespace(line);
     if(last_not_space == std::tstring_view::npos)
     {
         return line_height; // Our line is exclusively whitespace
diff --git a/src/ui_lyrics_panel.cpp b/src/ui_lyrics_panel.cpp
index d418b62f..5c83c6fd 100644
--- a/src/ui_lyrics_panel.cpp
+++ b/src/ui_lyrics_panel.cpp
@@ -447,10 +447,10 @@ static int _WrapSimpleLyricsLineToRect(HDC dc, CRect clip_rect, std::tstring_vie
     int total_height = 0;
     while(text_outstanding.length() > 0)
     {
-        size_t leading_spaces = text_outstanding.find_first_not_of(_T(' '));
+        size_t leading_spaces = find_first_nonwhitespace(text_outstanding);
         text_outstanding.remove_prefix(std::min(leading_spaces, text_outstanding.size()));
 
-        size_t last_not_space = text_outstanding.find_last_not_of(_T(' '));
+        size_t last_not_space = find_last_nonwhitespace(text_outstanding);
         if(last_not_space != std::tstring_view::npos)
         {
             size_t trailing_spaces = text_outstanding.length() - 1 - last_not_space;
@@ -476,7 +476,7 @@ static int _WrapSimpleLyricsLineToRect(HDC dc, CRect clip_rect, std::tstring_vie
             else
             {
                 assert(chars_to_draw > 0);
-                const int previous_space_index = int(text_outstanding.rfind(' ', chars_to_draw - 1));
+                const int previous_space_index = int(find_last_whitespace(text_outstanding, chars_to_draw - 1));
                 if(previous_space_index == std::tstring::npos)
                 {
                     // There is a single word that doesn't fit on the line
diff --git a/src/win32_util.cpp b/src/win32_util.cpp
index ecba2ff3..241d6b0f 100644
--- a/src/win32_util.cpp
+++ b/src/win32_util.cpp
@@ -158,6 +158,63 @@ std::tstring normalise_utf8(std::tstring_view input)
     return result;
 }
 
+bool is_char_whitespace(TCHAR c)
+{
+    // U+00A0 and U+202F are non-breaking spaces.
+    // U+180E was classified as a space when microsoft first defined isspace, but was later removed from the standard.
+    return (_istspace(c) > 0) && (c != L'\u00A0') && (c != L'\u202F') && (c != L'\u180E');
+}
+
+size_t find_first_whitespace(const std::tstring_view str, size_t pos)
+{
+    // match behavior of std::string_view::find_first_of
+    if(pos >= str.length() || str.empty()) return std::tstring_view::npos;
+
+    const auto it = std::find_if(std::next(str.begin(), pos), str.end(), is_char_whitespace);
+
+    if(it == str.end()) return std::tstring_view::npos;
+
+    return it - str.begin();
+}
+
+size_t find_first_nonwhitespace(const std::tstring_view str, size_t pos)
+{
+    // match behavior of std::string_view::find_first_not_of
+    if(pos >= str.length() || str.empty()) return std::tstring_view::npos;
+
+    const auto it = std::find_if_not(std::next(str.begin(), pos), str.end(), is_char_whitespace);
+
+    if(it == str.end()) return std::tstring_view::npos;
+
+    return it - str.begin();
+}
+
+size_t find_last_whitespace(const std::tstring_view str, size_t pos)
+{
+    if(str.empty()) return std::tstring_view::npos;
+
+    size_t offset = 0;
+    if(pos != std::tstring_view::npos && pos < str.length()) offset = str.length() - pos - 1;
+
+    const auto it = std::find_if(std::next(str.rbegin(), offset), str.rend(), is_char_whitespace);
+    if(it == str.rend()) return std::tstring_view::npos;
+
+    return str.rend() - it - 1;
+}
+
+size_t find_last_nonwhitespace(const std::tstring_view str, size_t pos)
+{
+    if(str.empty()) return std::tstring_view::npos;
+
+    size_t offset = 0;
+    if(pos != std::tstring_view::npos && pos < str.length()) offset = str.length() - pos - 1;
+
+    const auto it = std::find_if_not(std::next(str.rbegin(), offset), str.rend(), is_char_whitespace);
+    if(it == str.rend()) return std::tstring_view::npos;
+
+    return str.rend() - it - 1;
+}
+
 bool hr_success(HRESULT result, const char* filename, int line_number)
 {
     const bool success = (result == S_OK);
@@ -210,4 +267,121 @@ MVTF_TEST(win32_string_narrow_to_wide_handles_ascii)
     const std::wstring output = std::wstring(output_buffer.data(), output_chars);
     ASSERT(output == L"test string!\nwith a newline :O");
 }
+
+MVTF_TEST(win32_is_char_whitespace_true_for_breaking_whitespace)
+{
+    ASSERT(is_char_whitespace(L'\t'));
+    ASSERT(is_char_whitespace(L'\n'));
+    ASSERT(is_char_whitespace(L'\v'));
+    ASSERT(is_char_whitespace(L'\f'));
+    ASSERT(is_char_whitespace(L'\r'));
+    ASSERT(is_char_whitespace(L' '));
+
+    ASSERT(is_char_whitespace(L'\u0085')); // Next line
+    ASSERT(is_char_whitespace(L'\u1680')); // Ogham space mark
+
+    ASSERT(is_char_whitespace(L'\u2000')); // En quad
+    ASSERT(is_char_whitespace(L'\u2001')); // Em quad
+    ASSERT(is_char_whitespace(L'\u2002')); // En space
+    ASSERT(is_char_whitespace(L'\u2003')); // Em space
+    ASSERT(is_char_whitespace(L'\u2004')); // Three-per-em space
+    ASSERT(is_char_whitespace(L'\u2005')); // Four-per-em space
+    ASSERT(is_char_whitespace(L'\u2006')); // Six-per-em space
+    ASSERT(is_char_whitespace(L'\u2007')); // Figure space
+    ASSERT(is_char_whitespace(L'\u2008')); // Punctuation space
+    ASSERT(is_char_whitespace(L'\u2009')); // Thin space
+    ASSERT(is_char_whitespace(L'\u200A')); // Hair space
+
+    ASSERT(is_char_whitespace(L'\u2028')); // Line separator
+    ASSERT(is_char_whitespace(L'\u2029')); // Paragraph separator
+    ASSERT(is_char_whitespace(L'\u205F')); // Medium mathematical space
+    ASSERT(is_char_whitespace(L'\u3000')); // Ideographic space
+
+    ASSERT(!is_char_whitespace(L'\u00A0')); // Non-breaking space
+    ASSERT(!is_char_whitespace(L'\u202F')); // Narrow non-breaking space
+    ASSERT(!is_char_whitespace(L'\u180E')); // Mongolian vowel separator
+    ASSERT(!is_char_whitespace(L'A'));
+    ASSERT(!is_char_whitespace(L'1'));
+    ASSERT(!is_char_whitespace(L'-'));
+}
+
+MVTF_TEST(win32_find_first_whitespace_gives_correct_indices)
+{
+    std::tstring_view input = _T("Test string.\u3000Second sentence.");
+    ASSERT(find_first_whitespace(input) == 4);
+    ASSERT(find_first_whitespace(input, 4) == 4);
+    ASSERT(find_first_whitespace(input, 5) == 12);
+    ASSERT(find_first_whitespace(input, 23) == std::tstring_view::npos);
+    ASSERT(find_first_whitespace(input, 100) == std::tstring_view::npos);
+}
+
+MVTF_TEST(win32_find_first_whitespace_empty_string)
+{
+    ASSERT(find_first_whitespace(_T("")) == std::tstring_view::npos);
+}
+
+MVTF_TEST(win32_find_first_whitespace_no_whitespace)
+{
+    ASSERT(find_last_whitespace(_T("abcdef")) == std::tstring_view::npos);
+}
+
+MVTF_TEST(win32_find_first_nonwhitespace_gives_correct_indices)
+{
+    std::tstring_view input = _T("   \u3000Test    string.    ");
+    ASSERT(find_first_nonwhitespace(input) == 4);
+    ASSERT(find_first_nonwhitespace(input, 4) == 4);
+    ASSERT(find_first_nonwhitespace(input, 10) == 12);
+    ASSERT(find_first_nonwhitespace(input, 20) == std::tstring_view::npos);
+    ASSERT(find_first_nonwhitespace(input, 100) == std::tstring_view::npos);
+}
+
+MVTF_TEST(win32_find_first_nonwhitespace_empty_string)
+{
+    ASSERT(find_first_nonwhitespace(_T("")) == std::tstring_view::npos);
+}
+
+MVTF_TEST(win32_find_first_nonwhitespace_no_nonwhitespace)
+{
+    ASSERT(find_last_nonwhitespace(_T("   ")) == std::tstring_view::npos);
+}
+
+MVTF_TEST(win32_find_last_whitespace_gives_correct_indices)
+{
+    std::tstring_view input = _T("Test string.\u3000Second sentence.");
+    ASSERT(find_last_whitespace(input) == 19);
+    ASSERT(find_last_whitespace(input, 19) == 19);
+    ASSERT(find_last_whitespace(input, 15) == 12);
+    ASSERT(find_last_whitespace(input, 2) == std::tstring_view::npos);
+    ASSERT(find_last_whitespace(input, 100) == 19);
+}
+
+MVTF_TEST(win32_find_last_whitespace_empty_string)
+{
+    ASSERT(find_last_whitespace(_T("")) == std::tstring_view::npos);
+}
+
+MVTF_TEST(win32_find_last_whitespace_no_whitespace)
+{
+    ASSERT(find_last_whitespace(_T("abcdef")) == std::tstring_view::npos);
+}
+
+MVTF_TEST(win32_find_last_nonwhitespace_gives_correct_indices)
+{
+    std::tstring_view input = _T("   \u3000Test    string.    ");
+    ASSERT(find_last_nonwhitespace(input) == 18);
+    ASSERT(find_last_nonwhitespace(input, 18) == 18);
+    ASSERT(find_last_nonwhitespace(input, 10) == 7);
+    ASSERT(find_last_nonwhitespace(input, 3) == std::tstring_view::npos);
+    ASSERT(find_last_nonwhitespace(input, 100) == 18);
+}
+
+MVTF_TEST(win32_find_last_nonwhitespace_empty_string)
+{
+    ASSERT(find_last_nonwhitespace(_T("")) == std::tstring_view::npos);
+}
+
+MVTF_TEST(win32_find_last_nonwhitespace_no_nonwhitespace)
+{
+    ASSERT(find_last_nonwhitespace(_T("   ")) == std::tstring_view::npos);
+}
 #endif
diff --git a/src/win32_util.h b/src/win32_util.h
index 0c804079..d5eb64df 100644
--- a/src/win32_util.h
+++ b/src/win32_util.h
@@ -29,5 +29,11 @@ std::string from_tstring(const std::tstring& string);
 
 std::tstring normalise_utf8(std::tstring_view input);
 
+bool is_char_whitespace(TCHAR c);
+size_t find_first_whitespace(const std::tstring_view str, size_t pos = 0);
+size_t find_first_nonwhitespace(const std::tstring_view str, size_t pos = 0);
+size_t find_last_whitespace(const std::tstring_view str, size_t pos = std::tstring_view::npos);
+size_t find_last_nonwhitespace(const std::tstring_view str, size_t pos = std::tstring_view::npos);
+
 #define HR_SUCCESS(hr) hr_success(hr, __FILE__, __LINE__)
 bool hr_success(HRESULT result, const char* filename, int line_number);