diff --git a/.travis.yml b/.travis.yml
index fa385cf..4edbe3a 100644
--- a/.travis.yml
+++ b/.travis.yml
@@ -2,12 +2,6 @@ language: perl
 perl: 
   - "5.24"
   - "5.22"
-  #- "5.20"
-  #- "5.18"
-  #- "5.16"
-  #- "5.14"
-  #- "5.12"
-  #- "5.10"
   - "dev"               # installs latest developer release of perl (e.g. 5.21.8)
   - "blead"             # builds perl from git
 
diff --git a/t/spaces.t b/t/spaces.t
index dc7c936..cd2e30f 100644
--- a/t/spaces.t
+++ b/t/spaces.t
@@ -1,12 +1,13 @@
-use strict;
+use strict; # -*- mode: cperl 
 use warnings;
 use Test::More 0.96;
 use Test::Warnings;
 
+use lib qw(lib/ ../lib); # For local testing
 use_ok('HTML::FormatText');
 
 is( HTML::FormatText->format_string('| |'),      "| |\n", 'Check for spaces emitted when fed spaces' );
-is( HTML::FormatText->format_string('| |'), "| |\n", 'Check for spaces emitted when fed &nbsp' );
+is( HTML::FormatText->format_string('| |'), "|\xA0|\n", 'Check for spaces emitted when fed &nbsp' );
 
 # finish up
 done_testing();