diff --git a/translators/ABC-CLIO Serials Web.js b/translators/ABC-CLIO Serials Web.js
index b440e74b9..0381b8b0d 100644
--- a/translators/ABC-CLIO Serials Web.js	
+++ b/translators/ABC-CLIO Serials Web.js	
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ function doWeb(doc, url) {
 		                         elmt, nsResolver, XPathResult.ANY_TYPE, null).iterateNext();			
 		if(title, checkbox) {
 			checkbox = checkbox.name;
-			availableItems[checkbox] = Zotero.Utilities.cleanString(title.textContent).substr(6);
+			availableItems[checkbox] = Zotero.Utilities.trimInternal(title.textContent).substr(6);
 			
 			var links = doc.evaluate('./tbody/tr/td[b/text() = "Fulltext: ["]/a',
 									 elmt, nsResolver, XPathResult.ANY_TYPE, null);
@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ function doWeb(doc, url) {
 			
 			var attach = new Array();
 			while(link = links.iterateNext()) {
-				attach.push({url:link.href, title:Zotero.Utilities.cleanString(link.textContent)+" Full Text",
+				attach.push({url:link.href, title:Zotero.Utilities.trimInternal(link.textContent)+" Full Text",
 				             mimeType:"text/html"});
 			}
 			availableAttachments[checkbox] = attach;
diff --git a/translators/AGU Journals.js b/translators/AGU Journals.js
index e92cd9bd0..06a5fcffe 100644
--- a/translators/AGU Journals.js	
+++ b/translators/AGU Journals.js	
@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ function fixCaps(s)
 {
        if(s!='')
        {
-               words=Zotero.Utilities.cleanString(s).toLowerCase().split(" ");
+               words=Zotero.Utilities.trimInternal(s).toLowerCase().split(" ");
                for (var j = 0 ; j < words.length ; j++)
                {
                        if (j==0||(words[j][0] ==words[j][0].toLowerCase()&&words[j]!="or"&&words[j]!="and"&&words[j]!="of"&&words[j]!="in"))
@@ -80,7 +80,7 @@ function scrape(doc,url)
        temp=doc.evaluate(xpath, doc, nsResolver,XPathResult.ANY_TYPE,null).iterateNext();
        if(temp)
        {
-               temp=Zotero.Utilities.cleanString(temp.textContent).split(" ");;
+               temp=Zotero.Utilities.trimInternal(temp.textContent).split(" ");;
                newItem.date=temp[1]+" "+temp[0]+", "+temp[2];
        }
 
@@ -98,14 +98,14 @@ function scrape(doc,url)
        {
                for(var n=0;n<(3+2*count);n++)
                        {temp2=temp.iterateNext();}
-               newItem.abstractNote=Zotero.Utilities.cleanString(temp2.textContent);
+               newItem.abstractNote=Zotero.Utilities.trimInternal(temp2.textContent);
        }
 
        xpath='//p[@id="runhead"]';
        temp=doc.evaluate(xpath, doc, nsResolver,XPathResult.ANY_TYPE,null).iterateNext();
        if(temp)
        {
-               temp=Zotero.Utilities.cleanString(temp.textContent).split(", ");
+               temp=Zotero.Utilities.trimInternal(temp.textContent).split(", ");
                newItem.publicationTitle=fixCaps(temp[0]);
                for(var n=1;temp[n];n++)
                {
@@ -124,7 +124,7 @@ function scrape(doc,url)
        temp=doc.evaluate(xpath, doc, nsResolver,XPathResult.ANY_TYPE,null).iterateNext();
        if(temp)
        {
-               temp=Zotero.Utilities.cleanString(temp.textContent.replace('Keywords:',''));
+               temp=Zotero.Utilities.trimInternal(temp.textContent.replace('Keywords:',''));
                newItem.tags=temp.replace('.','').split('; ');
        }
        xpath='//p[@id="citation"]/span[@id="journal"]';
@@ -225,7 +225,7 @@ function doWeb(doc,url)
                        while(citerow=citerows.iterateNext())
                        {
                                linkrow=linkrows.iterateNext();
-                               items[linkrow.href]=Zotero.Utilities.cleanString(citerow.textContent);
+                               items[linkrow.href]=Zotero.Utilities.trimInternal(citerow.textContent);
                        }
                        return processList(items);
                }
diff --git a/translators/ARTFL Encyclopedie.js b/translators/ARTFL Encyclopedie.js
index 5a2cb87e2..454267758 100644
--- a/translators/ARTFL Encyclopedie.js	
+++ b/translators/ARTFL Encyclopedie.js	
@@ -113,13 +113,13 @@ function scrape (doc){
 			 	var tagstring = m[1].replace("&amp;", "&", "g");
 				var tags = tagstring.split(";")
 				for(var j in tags) {
-					newItem.tags.push(Zotero.Utilities.cleanString(tags[j]));
+					newItem.tags.push(Zotero.Utilities.trimInternal(tags[j]));
 				}
 			}
 			var authorRe = new RegExp('>'+title+'</a>,([^,]*),', "i");
 			var m = authorRe.exec(text);
 			var author = m[1];
-			author = Zotero.Utilities.cleanString(author);
+			author = Zotero.Utilities.trimInternal(author);
 			// reconcile author
 			author = reconcileAuthor(author);	
 			if (author!="NA"){ // ignore unknown authors
diff --git a/translators/AlterNet.js b/translators/AlterNet.js
index 3c7bb19aa..2b7a8641d 100644
--- a/translators/AlterNet.js
+++ b/translators/AlterNet.js
@@ -19,14 +19,14 @@ function detectWeb(doc, url) {
 	if (index != -1) {
 		// ordinary aritcle
 		var id = url.toString().substr(index + 1, 5);
-		Zotero.Utilities.cleanString(id);
+		Zotero.Utilities.trimInternal(id);
 		if (Number(id)) {
 			return "magazineArticle";
 		}
 		//columnist or blog article
 		index += url.toString().substr(index + 1).indexOf('/');
 		id = url.toString().substr(index + 2, 5);
-		Zotero.Utilities.cleanString(id);
+		Zotero.Utilities.trimInternal(id);
 		if  (Number(id) && url.toString().search('blog') == -1) {
 			return "magazineArticle";
 		}
@@ -44,14 +44,14 @@ function scrape(doc, url, title) {
 	     if (index != -1) {
 		     // ordinary aritcle
 		     var id = url.toString().substr(index + 1, 5);
-		     Zotero.Utilities.cleanString(id);
+		     Zotero.Utilities.trimInternal(id);
 		     if (Number(id)) { 
 			     var newItem = new Zotero.Item("magazineArticle");
 		     }
 		     //columnist or blog article
 		     index += url.toString().substr(index + 1).indexOf('/');
 		     id = url.toString().substr(index + 2, 5);
-		     Zotero.Utilities.cleanString(id);
+		     Zotero.Utilities.trimInternal(id);
 		     if  (Number(id) && url.toString().search('blog') == -1) {
 			     var newItem = new Zotero.Item("magazineArticle");
 		     }
@@ -154,7 +154,7 @@ function scrape(doc, url, title) {
 		     else {
 		     	     index += url.toString().substr(index + 1).indexOf('/');
 		     	     id = url.toString().substr(index + 2, 5);
-		     	     Zotero.Utilities.cleanString(id);
+		     	     Zotero.Utilities.trimInternal(id);
 		     	     if  (Number(id)) {
 				     printurl = "http://www.alternet.org/module/printversion/" + id;
 				     if (newItem.itemType == "blogPost") {
diff --git a/translators/Amazon.com.js b/translators/Amazon.com.js
index 6e37f2182..dd341a334 100644
--- a/translators/Amazon.com.js
+++ b/translators/Amazon.com.js
@@ -136,17 +136,17 @@ function doWeb(doc, url) {
 	
 		if (!xml..Errors.length()) {
 			if (xml..Publisher.length()){
-				publisher = Zotero.Utilities.cleanString(xml..Publisher[0].text().toString());
+				publisher = Zotero.Utilities.trimInternal(xml..Publisher[0].text().toString());
 			}
 			
 			var binding = "";
 			if (xml..Binding.length()){
-				binding = Zotero.Utilities.cleanString(xml..Binding[0].text().toString());
+				binding = Zotero.Utilities.trimInternal(xml..Binding[0].text().toString());
 			}
 			
 			var productGroup = "";
 			if (xml..ProductGroup.length()){
-				productGroup = Zotero.Utilities.cleanString(xml..ProductGroup[0].text().toString());
+				productGroup = Zotero.Utilities.trimInternal(xml..ProductGroup[0].text().toString());
 			}
 				
 			if (productGroup=="Book") {
@@ -178,7 +178,7 @@ function doWeb(doc, url) {
 			}
 			
 			if(xml..RunningTime.length()){
-				newItem.runningTime = Zotero.Utilities.cleanString(xml..RunningTime[0].text().toString());
+				newItem.runningTime = Zotero.Utilities.trimInternal(xml..RunningTime[0].text().toString());
 			}
 			
 			// Retrieve authors and other creators
@@ -192,31 +192,31 @@ function doWeb(doc, url) {
 			}
 			
 			if (xml..PublicationDate.length()){
-				newItem.date = Zotero.Utilities.cleanString(xml..PublicationDate[0].text().toString());
+				newItem.date = Zotero.Utilities.trimInternal(xml..PublicationDate[0].text().toString());
 			} else if (xml..ReleaseDate.length()){
-				newItem.date = Zotero.Utilities.cleanString(xml..ReleaseDate[0].text().toString());
+				newItem.date = Zotero.Utilities.trimInternal(xml..ReleaseDate[0].text().toString());
 			}
 			if (xml..Edition.length()){
-				newItem.edition = Zotero.Utilities.cleanString(xml..Edition[0].text().toString());
+				newItem.edition = Zotero.Utilities.trimInternal(xml..Edition[0].text().toString());
 			}
 			if (xml..ISBN.length()){
-				newItem.ISBN = Zotero.Utilities.cleanString(xml..ISBN[0].text().toString());
+				newItem.ISBN = Zotero.Utilities.trimInternal(xml..ISBN[0].text().toString());
 			}
 //			Uncomment when numPages field is added to schema
 //			if (xml..NumberOfPages.length()){
-//				newItem.numPages = Zotero.Utilities.cleanString(xml..NumberOfPages[0].text().toString());
+//				newItem.numPages = Zotero.Utilities.trimInternal(xml..NumberOfPages[0].text().toString());
 //			}
-			var title = Zotero.Utilities.cleanString(xml..Title[0].text().toString());
+			var title = Zotero.Utilities.trimInternal(xml..Title[0].text().toString());
 			if(title.lastIndexOf("(") != -1 && title.lastIndexOf(")") == title.length-1) {
 				title = title.substring(0, title.lastIndexOf("(")-1);
 			}
 			if (xml..ASIN.length()){
-				var url = "http://www.amazon." + suffix + "/dp/" + Zotero.Utilities.cleanString(xml..ASIN[0].text().toString());
+				var url = "http://www.amazon." + suffix + "/dp/" + Zotero.Utilities.trimInternal(xml..ASIN[0].text().toString());
 				newItem.attachments.push({title:"Amazon.com Link", snapshot:false, mimeType:"text/html", url:url});
 			}
 			
 			if (xml..OriginalReleaseDate.length()){
-				newItem.extra = Zotero.Utilities.cleanString(xml..OriginalReleaseDate[0].text().toString());
+				newItem.extra = Zotero.Utilities.trimInternal(xml..OriginalReleaseDate[0].text().toString());
 			}
 			
 			newItem.title = title;
diff --git a/translators/Ancestry.com US Federal Census.js b/translators/Ancestry.com US Federal Census.js
index e9eaa320d..959167945 100644
--- a/translators/Ancestry.com US Federal Census.js	
+++ b/translators/Ancestry.com US Federal Census.js	
@@ -217,7 +217,7 @@ function doWeb(doc, url) {
 			}
 			link = "http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?indiv=1&db="+db+"&fh=0&h="+recid;
 			name = doc.evaluate('.//span[@class="srchHit"]', listElt, nsResolver, XPathResult.ANY_TYPE, null).iterateNext().textContent;
-			items[link] = Zotero.Utilities.cleanString(name);
+			items[link] = Zotero.Utilities.trimInternal(name);
 		} 
 
 		items = Zotero.selectItems(items);
diff --git a/translators/Australian Dictionary of Biography.js b/translators/Australian Dictionary of Biography.js
index 28a8f9bbc..c65f6d769 100644
--- a/translators/Australian Dictionary of Biography.js	
+++ b/translators/Australian Dictionary of Biography.js	
@@ -52,10 +52,10 @@ function doWeb(doc, url) {
 	}
 	Zotero.Utilities.processDocuments(records, function(doc) {
 		var item = new Zotero.Item("bookSection");
-		var author = Zotero.Utilities.cleanString(doc.evaluate('//div[@id="content"]/p[strong="Author"]', doc, null, XPathResult.ANY_TYPE, null).iterateNext().lastChild.textContent);
+		var author = Zotero.Utilities.trimInternal(doc.evaluate('//div[@id="content"]/p[strong="Author"]', doc, null, XPathResult.ANY_TYPE, null).iterateNext().lastChild.textContent);
 		item.creators.push(Zotero.Utilities.cleanAuthor(author, "author"));
-		item.title = Zotero.Utilities.cleanString(doc.evaluate('//h1', doc, null, XPathResult.ANY_TYPE, null).iterateNext().textContent);
-		var pubdetails = Zotero.Utilities.cleanString(doc.evaluate('//div[@id="content"]/p[strong="Print Publication Details"]', doc, null, XPathResult.ANY_TYPE, null).iterateNext().textContent);
+		item.title = Zotero.Utilities.trimInternal(doc.evaluate('//h1', doc, null, XPathResult.ANY_TYPE, null).iterateNext().textContent);
+		var pubdetails = Zotero.Utilities.trimInternal(doc.evaluate('//div[@id="content"]/p[strong="Print Publication Details"]', doc, null, XPathResult.ANY_TYPE, null).iterateNext().textContent);
 		pubdetails = pubdetails.match(/Volume (\d+), ([\w ]+), (\d{4}), p+\.*\s+([\d-]+)/);
 		item.volume = RegExp.$1;
 		item.publisher = RegExp.$2;
diff --git a/translators/Berkeley Library Catalog.js b/translators/Berkeley Library Catalog.js
index 4b32741ff..03d21b02a 100644
--- a/translators/Berkeley Library Catalog.js	
+++ b/translators/Berkeley Library Catalog.js	
@@ -69,7 +69,7 @@ function doWeb(doc, url) {
 				record.leader = "00000"+value;
 			} else {
 				var ind = value[3]+value[5];
-				if (value.match(/^\d{1,2}\s{3}/)) value = Zotero.Utilities.cleanString(value.replace(/^\d{1,2}\s{3}/, ""));
+				if (value.match(/^\d{1,2}\s{3}/)) value = Zotero.Utilities.trimInternal(value.replace(/^\d{1,2}\s{3}/, ""));
 				value = value.replace(/\$([a-z0-9]) /g, marc.subfieldDelimiter+"$1");
 				if(value[0] != marc.subfieldDelimiter) {
 					value = marc.subfieldDelimiter+"a"+value;
diff --git a/translators/BibTeX.js b/translators/BibTeX.js
index 96425d59f..ca9d709f3 100644
--- a/translators/BibTeX.js
+++ b/translators/BibTeX.js
@@ -1729,7 +1729,7 @@ function getFieldValue(read) {
 }
 
 function beginRecord(type, closeChar) {
-	type = Zotero.Utilities.cleanString(type.toLowerCase());
+	type = Zotero.Utilities.trimInternal(type.toLowerCase());
 	if(type != "string") {
 		var zoteroType = bibtex2zoteroTypeMap[type];
 		if (!zoteroType) {
diff --git a/translators/Cambridge Scientific Abstracts.js b/translators/Cambridge Scientific Abstracts.js
index 574096d24..d2014c5e9 100644
--- a/translators/Cambridge Scientific Abstracts.js	
+++ b/translators/Cambridge Scientific Abstracts.js	
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ function detectWeb(doc, url) {
 		var type = doc.evaluate('//tr[td[1][@class="data_heading"]/text() = "Publication Type"]/td[3]',
 			doc, nsResolver, XPathResult.ANY_TYPE, null).iterateNext();
 		if(type) {
-			type = Zotero.Utilities.cleanString(type.textContent);
+			type = Zotero.Utilities.trimInternal(type.textContent);
 			if(type == "Book Chapter") {
 				return "bookSection";
 			} else if(type.substr(0, 4) == "Book") {
diff --git a/translators/DTIC.js b/translators/DTIC.js
index 5a17b1979..226569485 100644
--- a/translators/DTIC.js
+++ b/translators/DTIC.js
@@ -77,26 +77,26 @@ function doWeb(doc, url) {
 		}
 		if (citation.dc_date.length()) {
 			var dates = citation.dc_date;
-			newItem.date = Zotero.Utilities.cleanString(dates[0].text().toString());
+			newItem.date = Zotero.Utilities.trimInternal(dates[0].text().toString());
 		}
 		if (citation.dc_description.length()) {
 			var descriptions = citation.dc_description;
 			for (var j=0; j<descriptions.length(); j++) {
-				var noteStr = Zotero.Utilities.cleanString(descriptions[j].text().toString());
+				var noteStr = Zotero.Utilities.trimInternal(descriptions[j].text().toString());
 				newItem.notes.push({note:noteStr});
 			}
 		}
 		if (citation.dc_subject.length()) {
 			var subjects = citation.dc_subject;
 			for (var j=0; j<subjects.length(); j++) { 
-				var subjectValue = Zotero.Utilities.cleanString(subjects[j].text().toString());
+				var subjectValue = Zotero.Utilities.trimInternal(subjects[j].text().toString());
 				newItem.tags.push(subjectValue);
 			}
 		}
 		if (citation.dc_identifier.length()) {
 			var identifiers = citation.dc_identifier;
 			for (var j=0; j<identifiers.length(); j++) {
-				var identifier = Zotero.Utilities.cleanString(identifiers[j].text().toString());
+				var identifier = Zotero.Utilities.trimInternal(identifiers[j].text().toString());
 				if (identifier.substr(0, 4) == "doi:") {
 					newItem.DOI = identifier;
 				}
diff --git a/translators/Digital Medievalist.js b/translators/Digital Medievalist.js
index 5139594bb..6af5ba4ad 100644
--- a/translators/Digital Medievalist.js	
+++ b/translators/Digital Medievalist.js	
@@ -100,7 +100,7 @@ function parseXML(text, itemUrlBase, doc) {
 		newItem.tags[i] = kwords[i];
 	} 
 
-	//newItem.abstractNote = Zotero.Utilities.cleanString(xml..text.front.argument.(@n == "abstract").p.text().toString());
+	//newItem.abstractNote = Zotero.Utilities.trimInternal(xml..text.front.argument.(@n == "abstract").p.text().toString());
 	newItem.attachments.push({document:doc, title:doc.title});
 	
 	newItem.complete();
diff --git a/translators/ERIC.js b/translators/ERIC.js
index 0f505d4c8..13f3af445 100644
--- a/translators/ERIC.js
+++ b/translators/ERIC.js
@@ -73,7 +73,7 @@ function doWeb(doc, url)	{
 				title = doc.evaluate('./td[2]/a', row, nsResolver, XPathResult.ANY_TYPE, null).iterateNext().textContent;
 				id = doc.evaluate('./td[6]', row, nsResolver, XPathResult.ANY_TYPE, null).iterateNext().textContent;
 				Zotero.debug(title + id);
-				items[id] = Zotero.Utilities.cleanTags(Zotero.Utilities.cleanString(title));
+				items[id] = Zotero.Utilities.cleanTags(Zotero.Utilities.trimInternal(title));
 			}
 		} else {
 			// We have normal search results
@@ -83,7 +83,7 @@ function doWeb(doc, url)	{
 			var titlerows=doc.evaluate(titlpath, doc, nsResolver, XPathResult.ANY_TYPE, null);
 			var id;
 			while(id=ids.iterateNext())
-				items[id.id]=Zotero.Utilities.cleanTags(Zotero.Utilities.cleanString(titlerows.iterateNext().textContent));
+				items[id.id]=Zotero.Utilities.cleanTags(Zotero.Utilities.trimInternal(titlerows.iterateNext().textContent));
 		}
 		items=Zotero.selectItems(items);
 		if (!items) return false;
diff --git a/translators/ESpacenet.js b/translators/ESpacenet.js
index 8e63bbc29..0d7a8437f 100644
--- a/translators/ESpacenet.js
+++ b/translators/ESpacenet.js
@@ -65,7 +65,7 @@ function scrape(doc,url) {
 	//Get title
 	var xpath = "/html/body/table[2]/tbody/tr[1]/td[3]/h2";
 	if(doc.evaluate(xpath, doc, null, XPathResult.ANY_TYPE, null).iterateNext()){
-		var title = Zotero.Utilities.cleanString(doc.evaluate(xpath, doc, null, XPathResult.ANY_TYPE, null).iterateNext().textContent);	
+		var title = Zotero.Utilities.trimInternal(doc.evaluate(xpath, doc, null, XPathResult.ANY_TYPE, null).iterateNext().textContent);	
 		
 		var title1 = title.split(" ");		 
 		for (var j in title1) {
@@ -77,37 +77,37 @@ function scrape(doc,url) {
 	//Get Abstract
 	var xpath = '//td[@id="abCell"]';
 	if(doc.evaluate(xpath, doc, null, XPathResult.ANY_TYPE, null).iterateNext()){
-		var abstract = Zotero.Utilities.cleanString(doc.evaluate(xpath, doc, null, XPathResult.ANY_TYPE, null).iterateNext().textContent);	
+		var abstract = Zotero.Utilities.trimInternal(doc.evaluate(xpath, doc, null, XPathResult.ANY_TYPE, null).iterateNext().textContent);	
 	}
 	
 	//Get Applicant
 	var xpath = "//table[1]/tbody/tr/td[1]/table/tbody/tr[4]/td[2]";
 	if(doc.evaluate(xpath, doc, null, XPathResult.ANY_TYPE, null).iterateNext()){
-		var applicantField = Zotero.Utilities.cleanString(doc.evaluate(xpath, doc, null, XPathResult.ANY_TYPE, null).iterateNext().textContent);	
+		var applicantField = Zotero.Utilities.trimInternal(doc.evaluate(xpath, doc, null, XPathResult.ANY_TYPE, null).iterateNext().textContent);	
 	}
 
 	//Get application number
 	var xpath = "//table[1]/tbody/tr/td[1]/table/tbody/tr[8]/td[2]";
 	if(doc.evaluate(xpath, doc, null, XPathResult.ANY_TYPE, null).iterateNext()){
-		var anumber = Zotero.Utilities.cleanString(doc.evaluate(xpath, doc, null, XPathResult.ANY_TYPE, null).iterateNext().textContent);	
+		var anumber = Zotero.Utilities.trimInternal(doc.evaluate(xpath, doc, null, XPathResult.ANY_TYPE, null).iterateNext().textContent);	
 	}
 	
 	//Get patent number
 	var xpath = "//table[1]/tbody/tr/td[1]/table/tbody/tr[1]/td[2]";
 	if(doc.evaluate(xpath, doc, null, XPathResult.ANY_TYPE, null).iterateNext()){
-		var pnumber = Zotero.Utilities.cleanString(doc.evaluate(xpath, doc, null, XPathResult.ANY_TYPE, null).iterateNext().textContent);	
+		var pnumber = Zotero.Utilities.trimInternal(doc.evaluate(xpath, doc, null, XPathResult.ANY_TYPE, null).iterateNext().textContent);	
 	}
 	
 	//Get CIB
 	var xpath = "//table[1]/tbody/tr/td[1]/table/tbody/tr[6]/td[2]";
 	if(doc.evaluate(xpath, doc, null, XPathResult.ANY_TYPE, null).iterateNext()){
-		var CIBnumber = Zotero.Utilities.cleanString(doc.evaluate(xpath, doc, null, XPathResult.ANY_TYPE, null).iterateNext().textContent);	
+		var CIBnumber = Zotero.Utilities.trimInternal(doc.evaluate(xpath, doc, null, XPathResult.ANY_TYPE, null).iterateNext().textContent);	
 	}
 	
 	//Get ECLA
 	var xpath = "//table[1]/tbody/tr/td[1]/table/tbody/tr[7]/td[2]";
 	if(doc.evaluate(xpath, doc, null, XPathResult.ANY_TYPE, null).iterateNext()){
-		var tmpECLAnumber = Zotero.Utilities.cleanString(doc.evaluate(xpath, doc, null, XPathResult.ANY_TYPE, null).iterateNext().textContent);		
+		var tmpECLAnumber = Zotero.Utilities.trimInternal(doc.evaluate(xpath, doc, null, XPathResult.ANY_TYPE, null).iterateNext().textContent);		
 		tmpECLAnumber = tmpECLAnumber.substr(24);
 		tmpECLAnumber = tmpECLAnumber.replace(/\)+/g, '; ');
 		var aus = tmpECLAnumber.split("; ");
@@ -120,20 +120,20 @@ function scrape(doc,url) {
 	//Get priority number
 	var xpath = "//table[1]/tbody/tr/td[1]/table/tbody/tr[9]/td[2]";
 	if(doc.evaluate(xpath, doc, null, XPathResult.ANY_TYPE, null).iterateNext()){
-		var prnumber = Zotero.Utilities.cleanString(doc.evaluate(xpath, doc, null, XPathResult.ANY_TYPE, null).iterateNext().textContent);
+		var prnumber = Zotero.Utilities.trimInternal(doc.evaluate(xpath, doc, null, XPathResult.ANY_TYPE, null).iterateNext().textContent);
 	}	
 
 	
 	//Get date
 	var xpath = "//table[1]/tbody/tr/td[1]/table/tbody/tr[2]/td[2]";
 	if(doc.evaluate(xpath, doc, null, XPathResult.ANY_TYPE, null).iterateNext()){
-		var date = Zotero.Utilities.cleanString(doc.evaluate(xpath, doc, null, XPathResult.ANY_TYPE, null).iterateNext().textContent);	
+		var date = Zotero.Utilities.trimInternal(doc.evaluate(xpath, doc, null, XPathResult.ANY_TYPE, null).iterateNext().textContent);	
 	}
 	
 	//Get Creators
 	var xpath = "//table[1]/tbody/tr/td[1]/table/tbody/tr[3]/td[2]";
 	if(doc.evaluate(xpath, doc, null, XPathResult.ANY_TYPE, null).iterateNext()){
-		var inventorField = Zotero.Utilities.cleanString(doc.evaluate(xpath, doc, null, XPathResult.ANY_TYPE, null).iterateNext().textContent);	
+		var inventorField = Zotero.Utilities.trimInternal(doc.evaluate(xpath, doc, null, XPathResult.ANY_TYPE, null).iterateNext().textContent);	
 	}
 
 	//Create Zotero Ref
diff --git a/translators/Education Week.js b/translators/Education Week.js
index 1eeba5583..f3f9ecd09 100644
--- a/translators/Education Week.js	
+++ b/translators/Education Week.js	
@@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ function scrape(doc, url) {
 
 
         if (metaTags["Authors"]) {
-              var author = Zotero.Utilities.cleanString(metaTags["Authors"]);
+              var author = Zotero.Utilities.trimInternal(metaTags["Authors"]);
               if (author.substr(0,3).toLowerCase() == "by ") {
                       author = author.substr(3);
               }
diff --git a/translators/Embedded RDF.js b/translators/Embedded RDF.js
index 212e2bb4e..befab9512 100644
--- a/translators/Embedded RDF.js	
+++ b/translators/Embedded RDF.js	
@@ -76,7 +76,7 @@ function doWeb(doc, url) {
 	for(var i=0; i<metaTags.length; i++) {
 		var tag = metaTags[i].getAttribute("name");
 		var value = metaTags[i].getAttribute("content");
-		if(tag && value && tag.substr(0, 3).toLowerCase() == prefix) {
+		if(tag && value && tag.substr(0, prefix.length).toLowerCase() == prefix) {
 			if(tag == "dc.title") {
 				foundTitle = true;
 			}
diff --git a/translators/Epicurious.js b/translators/Epicurious.js
index a52984abb..029c0dde4 100644
--- a/translators/Epicurious.js
+++ b/translators/Epicurious.js
@@ -71,7 +71,7 @@ function scrape(doc){
 	xpath = '//div[@id="recipe_intro"]/p';
 	if (elmt = doc.evaluate(xpath, doc, nsResolver, XPathResult.ANY_TYPE, null).iterateNext()){
 		var abstract = elmt.textContent;
-		abstract = Zotero.Utilities.cleanString(abstract);
+		abstract = Zotero.Utilities.trimInternal(abstract);
 		newItem.abstractNote = abstract;		
 	}
 
diff --git a/translators/Factiva.js b/translators/Factiva.js
index ae4543adf..dcf6cb177 100644
--- a/translators/Factiva.js
+++ b/translators/Factiva.js
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ function doWeb(doc, url) {
 		var hdl = doc.evaluate('.//input[@name="hdl"]', tableRow, nsResolver, XPathResult.ANY_TYPE,
 			null).iterateNext().value;
 		if(!singlePage){
-			items[hdl] = Zotero.Utilities.cleanString(tableRow.getElementsByTagName("a")[0].textContent);
+			items[hdl] = Zotero.Utilities.trimInternal(tableRow.getElementsByTagName("a")[0].textContent);
 		} else {
 			var m = doc.evaluate('.//td[@class="count"]', tableRow, nsResolver, XPathResult.ANY_TYPE, 
 				null).iterateNext().textContent.match(/[0-9]+/);
@@ -99,14 +99,14 @@ function doWeb(doc, url) {
 			var article = ppsarticle.article;
 			var newItem = new Zotero.Item("newspaperArticle");
 			
-			newItem.title = Zotero.Utilities.cleanString(article.headline.paragraph.text().toString());
-			newItem.publicationTitle = Zotero.Utilities.cleanString(article.sourceName.text().toString());
+			newItem.title = Zotero.Utilities.trimInternal(article.headline.paragraph.text().toString());
+			newItem.publicationTitle = Zotero.Utilities.trimInternal(article.sourceName.text().toString());
 			for each(var tag in article..name) {
 				newItem.tags.push(tag.text().toString());
 			}
 			newItem.date = Zotero.Utilities.formatDate(Zotero.Utilities.strToDate(article.publicationDate.date.text().toString()));
 			if(article.byline.length()) {
-				var byline = Zotero.Utilities.cleanString(article.byline.text().toString().replace(/By/i, ""));
+				var byline = Zotero.Utilities.trimInternal(article.byline.text().toString().replace(/By/i, ""));
 				var authors = byline.split(/ (?:\&|and) /i);
 				for each(var author in authors) {
 					newItem.creators.push(Zotero.Utilities.cleanAuthor(author, "author"));
diff --git a/translators/Flickr.js b/translators/Flickr.js
index e31518790..fff2ff8b1 100644
--- a/translators/Flickr.js
+++ b/translators/Flickr.js
@@ -113,14 +113,14 @@ function doWeb(doc, url) {
 		var newItem = new Zotero.Item("artwork");
 		var title = "";
 		if (xml..title.length()){
-			var title = Zotero.Utilities.cleanString(xml..title[0].text().toString());
+			var title = Zotero.Utilities.trimInternal(xml..title[0].text().toString());
 			if (title == ""){
 				title = " ";
 			}
 			newItem.title = title;
 		}
 		for(var i=0; i<xml..tag.length(); i++) {
-			newItem.tags.push(Zotero.Utilities.cleanString(xml..tag[i].text().toString()));
+			newItem.tags.push(Zotero.Utilities.trimInternal(xml..tag[i].text().toString()));
 		}
 		if (xml..dates.length()){
 			var date = xml..dates[0].@taken.toString();
diff --git a/translators/Florida University Libraries (Endeca 1).js b/translators/Florida University Libraries (Endeca 1).js
index 003a3801c..8ab5d0a3f 100644
--- a/translators/Florida University Libraries (Endeca 1).js	
+++ b/translators/Florida University Libraries (Endeca 1).js	
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ function doWeb(doc, url){
 		// search page
 		var items = new Array();
 		do {
-			items[elmt.href] = Zotero.Utilities.cleanString(elmt.textContent);
+			items[elmt.href] = Zotero.Utilities.trimInternal(elmt.textContent);
 		} while (elmt = elmts.iterateNext());
 		
 		items = Zotero.selectItems(items);
diff --git a/translators/Gale Literature Resource Center.js b/translators/Gale Literature Resource Center.js
index 8f59c61d7..25d2b94c5 100644
--- a/translators/Gale Literature Resource Center.js	
+++ b/translators/Gale Literature Resource Center.js	
@@ -30,8 +30,8 @@ function detectWeb(doc, url) {
 }
 
 function extractCitation(type, citation) {
-	type = Zotero.Utilities.cleanString(type).toLowerCase();
-	citation = Zotero.Utilities.cleanString(citation);
+	type = Zotero.Utilities.trimInternal(type).toLowerCase();
+	citation = Zotero.Utilities.trimInternal(citation);
 	
 	if(type == "book article") {
 		var item = new Zotero.Item("bookSection");
diff --git a/translators/HighWire.js b/translators/HighWire.js
index 578fb5752..d990e87b4 100644
--- a/translators/HighWire.js
+++ b/translators/HighWire.js
@@ -145,7 +145,7 @@ function doWeb(doc, url) {
 				var links = doc.evaluate('.//a', tableRow, nsResolver, XPathResult.ANY_TYPE, null);
 				while(link = links.iterateNext()) {
 					// prefer Full Text snapshots, but take abstracts
-					var textContent = Zotero.Utilities.cleanString(link.textContent);
+					var textContent = Zotero.Utilities.trimInternal(link.textContent);
 					if((textContent.substr(0, 8) == "Abstract" && !snapshot) || textContent.substr(0, 9) == "Full Text") {
 						snapshot = link.href;
 					} else if(textContent.substr(0, 3) == "PDF") {
@@ -157,7 +157,7 @@ function doWeb(doc, url) {
 			snapshots[gca] = snapshot;
 			pdfs[gca] = pdf;
 			
-			items[gca] = Zotero.Utilities.cleanString(title);
+			items[gca] = Zotero.Utilities.trimInternal(title);
 		}
 		
 		items = Zotero.selectItems(items);
diff --git a/translators/IEEE Xplore.js b/translators/IEEE Xplore.js
index 123476f9e..e0b63958d 100644
--- a/translators/IEEE Xplore.js	
+++ b/translators/IEEE Xplore.js	
@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ function doWeb(doc, url) {
 				}
 			}
 			
-			items[link] = Zotero.Utilities.cleanString(title);
+			items[link] = Zotero.Utilities.trimInternal(title);
 		}
 		
 		items = Zotero.selectItems(items);
diff --git a/translators/IRIS.js b/translators/IRIS.js
index 182bfde80..315b1355e 100644
--- a/translators/IRIS.js
+++ b/translators/IRIS.js
@@ -252,7 +252,7 @@ function scrape(doc) {
 					// Collect title
 					var title = doc.evaluate("./td[2]", elmt, nsResolver, XPathResult.ANY_TYPE, null).iterateNext().textContent;
 					if(checkbox && title) {
-						items[checkbox.name] = Zotero.Utilities.cleanString(title);
+						items[checkbox.name] = Zotero.Utilities.trimInternal(title);
 					}
 				} while(elmt = elmts.iterateNext());
 					items = Zotero.selectItems(items);
diff --git a/translators/InfoTrac.js b/translators/InfoTrac.js
index 7ce03c89a..1a83dca5a 100644
--- a/translators/InfoTrac.js
+++ b/translators/InfoTrac.js
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ function detectWeb(doc, url) {
 		var genre = doc.evaluate('//comment()[substring(., 1, 6) = " Genre"]', doc, nsResolver, XPathResult.ANY_TYPE, null).iterateNext();
 		
 		if(genre) {
-			var value = Zotero.Utilities.cleanString(genre.nodeValue.substr(7));
+			var value = Zotero.Utilities.trimInternal(genre.nodeValue.substr(7));
 			if(value == "article") {
 				return "journalArticle";
 			} else if(value == "book") {
diff --git a/translators/International Herald Tribune.js b/translators/International Herald Tribune.js
index ce49195b0..620b0ce38 100644
--- a/translators/International Herald Tribune.js	
+++ b/translators/International Herald Tribune.js	
@@ -53,7 +53,7 @@ function scrape(doc, url) {
 	associateMeta(newItem, metaTags, "Owner", "extra");
 	
 	if (metaTags["Author"]) {
-		var author = Zotero.Utilities.cleanString(metaTags["Author"]);
+		var author = Zotero.Utilities.trimInternal(metaTags["Author"]);
 		if (author.substr(0,3).toLowerCase() == "by ") {
 			author = author.substr(3);
 		}
@@ -78,7 +78,7 @@ function scrape(doc, url) {
 		Zotero.debug(newItem.tags);
 		for (var i in newItem.tags) {
 			if (newItem.tags[i] != "") {
-				newItem.tags[i] = Zotero.Utilities.cleanString(newItem.tags[i].replace("  ", ", "));
+				newItem.tags[i] = Zotero.Utilities.trimInternal(newItem.tags[i].replace("  ", ", "));
 				var words = newItem.tags[i].split(" ");
 				for (var j = 0 ; j < words.length ; j++) {
 					if (words[j][0] == words[j][0].toLowerCase()) {
diff --git a/translators/LA Times.js b/translators/LA Times.js
index b7a005721..829c72acc 100644
--- a/translators/LA Times.js	
+++ b/translators/LA Times.js	
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ function detectWeb(doc, url)
               var row;
               while(row=rows.iterateNext())
               {
-		if(Zotero.Utilities.cleanString(row.textContent.toLowerCase())=="travel")
+		if(Zotero.Utilities.trimInternal(row.textContent.toLowerCase())=="travel")
                               {return "newspaperArticle";}
               }
 
@@ -124,14 +124,14 @@ function scrape(doc,url)
       if(!test)
               {xpath='//p[@class="by-author"]';}
       var info=doc.evaluate(xpath, doc, nsResolver, XPathResult.ANY_TYPE,null).iterateNext().textContent;
-      info=Zotero.Utilities.cleanString(info);
+      info=Zotero.Utilities.trimInternal(info);
       var date=findDate(info);
       if(date)
       {
               newItem.date=date;
               info=info.replace(date,'');
       }
-      info=Zotero.Utilities.cleanString(info);
+      info=Zotero.Utilities.trimInternal(info);
       if(info.indexOf(", ")>-1)
       {
               var phrases=info.split(", ");
@@ -177,7 +177,7 @@ function doWeb(doc, url)
       var row;
       while(row=rows.iterateNext())
       {
-              if(Zotero.Utilities.cleanString(row.textContent.toLowerCase())=="travel")
+              if(Zotero.Utilities.trimInternal(row.textContent.toLowerCase())=="travel")
                       {scrape(doc,url); return true;}
       }
 
@@ -214,7 +214,7 @@ function doWeb(doc, url)
                               if(count==0)
                                       {break;}
                               if(row.href.indexOf("/travel/")<0)
-				{items[row.href]=Zotero.Utilities.cleanString(row.textContent);}
+				{items[row.href]=Zotero.Utilities.trimInternal(row.textContent);}
                               count--;
                       }
 
diff --git a/translators/Library Catalog (SIRSI).js b/translators/Library Catalog (SIRSI).js
index d215b4827..605833dd8 100644
--- a/translators/Library Catalog (SIRSI).js	
+++ b/translators/Library Catalog (SIRSI).js	
@@ -279,7 +279,7 @@ function doWeb(doc, url){
 				// Collect title
 				var title = doc.evaluate("./td[2]", elmt, nsResolver, XPathResult.ANY_TYPE, null).iterateNext().textContent;
 				if(checkbox && title) {
-					items[checkbox.name] = Zotero.Utilities.cleanString(title);
+					items[checkbox.name] = Zotero.Utilities.trimInternal(title);
 				}
 			} while(elmt = elmts.iterateNext());
 			items = Zotero.selectItems(items);
diff --git a/translators/Library Catalog (VTLS).js b/translators/Library Catalog (VTLS).js
index 32925e14e..e5f021818 100644
--- a/translators/Library Catalog (VTLS).js	
+++ b/translators/Library Catalog (VTLS).js	
@@ -70,7 +70,7 @@ function doWeb(doc, url) {
 						var value = doc.evaluate('./td', field, nsResolver,
 					    	XPathResult.ANY_TYPE, null).iterateNext();
 						if(value) {
-							items[url] = Zotero.Utilities.cleanString(value.textContent);
+							items[url] = Zotero.Utilities.trimInternal(value.textContent);
 						}
 					}
 				}
diff --git a/translators/Library Catalog (Voyager).js b/translators/Library Catalog (Voyager).js
index d5265aee3..41f44e282 100644
--- a/translators/Library Catalog (Voyager).js	
+++ b/translators/Library Catalog (Voyager).js	
@@ -78,7 +78,7 @@ function doWeb(doc, url) {
 				if(tagRegexp.test(links[j].href)) {
 					var text = links[j].textContent;
 					if(text) {
-						text = Zotero.Utilities.cleanString(text);
+						text = Zotero.Utilities.trimInternal(text);
 						if(!rejectRegexp.test(text)) {
 							if(availableItems[i]) {
 								availableItems[i] += " "+text;
@@ -91,7 +91,7 @@ function doWeb(doc, url) {
 			}
 			// if no title, pull from second td
 			if(!availableItems[i]) {
-				availableItems[i] = Zotero.Utilities.cleanString(doc.evaluate('./td[2]', tableRow, nsResolver, XPathResult.ANY_TYPE, null).iterateNext().textContent);
+				availableItems[i] = Zotero.Utilities.trimInternal(doc.evaluate('./td[2]', tableRow, nsResolver, XPathResult.ANY_TYPE, null).iterateNext().textContent);
 			}
 		}
 		
diff --git a/translators/Max Planck Institute for the History of Science Virtual Laboratory Library.js b/translators/Max Planck Institute for the History of Science Virtual Laboratory Library.js
index 44c1ac4ef..47f5392a3 100644
--- a/translators/Max Planck Institute for the History of Science Virtual Laboratory Library.js	
+++ b/translators/Max Planck Institute for the History of Science Virtual Laboratory Library.js	
@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ function doWeb(doc, url){
 		var availableItems = new Array();
 		var i = 0;
 		while (searchElmt = searchElmts.iterateNext()){
-			availableItems[i] = Zotero.Utilities.cleanString(searchElmt.textContent);
+			availableItems[i] = Zotero.Utilities.trimInternal(searchElmt.textContent);
 			var docID = doc.evaluate('./@title', searchElmt, nsResolver, XPathResult.ANY_TYPE, null).iterateNext().nodeValue;
 			links.push("http://vlp.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/library/meta?id=" + docID);
 			i++;
diff --git a/translators/Melvyl.js b/translators/Melvyl.js
index f9b9512f7..778e143ff 100644
--- a/translators/Melvyl.js
+++ b/translators/Melvyl.js
@@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ function doWeb(doc, url) {
 			do {
 				elmt = doc.evaluate(xpath, reviewRow, nsResolver, XPathResult.ANY_TYPE, null).iterateNext();
 				titleElmt = doc.evaluate(titleXpath, reviewRow, nsResolver, XPathResult.ANY_TYPE, null).iterateNext();
-				items[elmt.href] = Zotero.Utilities.cleanString(titleElmt.textContent);
+				items[elmt.href] = Zotero.Utilities.trimInternal(titleElmt.textContent);
 			} while (reviewRow = reviewRows.iterateNext());
 
 		} else {
@@ -67,7 +67,7 @@ function doWeb(doc, url) {
 			var titleElmts = doc.evaluate(titleXpath, doc, nsResolver, XPathResult.ANY_TYPE, null);
 			var titleElmt;
 			while ((elmt = elmts.iterateNext()) && (titleElmt = titleElmts.iterateNext())){
-				items[elmt.href] = Zotero.Utilities.cleanString(titleElmt.textContent);
+				items[elmt.href] = Zotero.Utilities.trimInternal(titleElmt.textContent);
 			}
 		}
 			
diff --git a/translators/NASA ADS.js b/translators/NASA ADS.js
index 6c3f4fe11..7a774650a 100644
--- a/translators/NASA ADS.js	
+++ b/translators/NASA ADS.js	
@@ -62,7 +62,7 @@ function doWeb(doc, url) {
 
 		do {
 			titleElmt = titleElmts.iterateNext(); //iterate a second time to avoid score
-			items[bibElmt.value] = Zotero.Utilities.cleanString(titleElmt.textContent);
+			items[bibElmt.value] = Zotero.Utilities.trimInternal(titleElmt.textContent);
 		} while((bibElmt = bibElmts.iterateNext()) && (titleElmt = titleElmts.iterateNext()));
 		items = Zotero.selectItems(items);
 		if(!items) return true;
diff --git a/translators/NYTimes.com.js b/translators/NYTimes.com.js
index a933cc683..858e5c2fc 100644
--- a/translators/NYTimes.com.js
+++ b/translators/NYTimes.com.js
@@ -88,7 +88,7 @@ function scrape(doc, url) {
 	associateMeta(newItem, metaTags, "articleid", "accessionNumber");
 	
 	if(metaTags["byl"]) {
-		var author = Zotero.Utilities.cleanString(metaTags["byl"]);
+		var author = Zotero.Utilities.trimInternal(metaTags["byl"]);
 		if(author.substr(0, 3).toLowerCase() == "by ") {
 			author = author.substr(3);
 		}
diff --git a/translators/Nature.js b/translators/Nature.js
index f748f5a87..b15009bc1 100644
--- a/translators/Nature.js
+++ b/translators/Nature.js
@@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ function doWeb(doc, url) {
 			doc, nsResolver, XPathResult.ANY_TYPE, null);
 		var tableRow, fulltextLink;
 		while((tableRow = tableRows.iterateNext()) && (fulltextLink = fulltextLinks.iterateNext())) {
-			items[fulltextLink.href] = Zotero.Utilities.cleanString(tableRow.textContent);
+			items[fulltextLink.href] = Zotero.Utilities.trimInternal(tableRow.textContent);
 		}
 		
 		items = Zotero.selectItems(items);
diff --git a/translators/OCLC WorldCat FirstSearch.js b/translators/OCLC WorldCat FirstSearch.js
index bfc9e1b55..e0b669d5f 100644
--- a/translators/OCLC WorldCat FirstSearch.js	
+++ b/translators/OCLC WorldCat FirstSearch.js	
@@ -81,10 +81,10 @@ function processURLs(urls) {
 							}
 						}
 					} else {
-						newItem.creators.push(Zotero.Utilities.cleanString(match[2]));
+						newItem.creators.push(Zotero.Utilities.trimInternal(match[2]));
 					}
 				} else if(match[1] == 'Publication') {
-					match[2] = Zotero.Utilities.cleanString(match[2]);
+					match[2] = Zotero.Utilities.trimInternal(match[2]);
 					if(match[2].substring(match[2].length-1) == ',') {
 						match[2] = match[2].substring(0, match[2].length-1);
 					}
@@ -113,7 +113,7 @@ function processURLs(urls) {
 					
 					var tags = match[2].split("--");
 					for(var j in tags) {
-						newItem.tags.push(Zotero.Utilities.cleanString(tags[j]));
+						newItem.tags.push(Zotero.Utilities.trimInternal(tags[j]));
 					}
 				} else if(match[1] == "Accession No") {
 					newItem.accessionNumber = Zotero.Utilities.superCleanString(match[2]);
diff --git a/translators/Ovid.js b/translators/Ovid.js
index f4fc67b19..d3a048461 100644
--- a/translators/Ovid.js
+++ b/translators/Ovid.js
@@ -67,7 +67,7 @@ function doWeb(doc, url) {
 		if (prefix == 'x') return namespace; else return null;
 	} : null;
 	
-	var results = Zotero.Utilities.cleanString(doc.evaluate('//div[@class="bibheader-resultsrange"]/b', doc, nsResolver, XPathResult.ANY_TYPE, null).iterateNext().textContent);
+	var results = Zotero.Utilities.trimInternal(doc.evaluate('//div[@class="bibheader-resultsrange"]/b', doc, nsResolver, XPathResult.ANY_TYPE, null).iterateNext().textContent);
 	var post = "S="+doc.evaluate('.//input[@name="S"]', doc, nsResolver, XPathResult.ANY_TYPE, null).iterateNext().value;
 
 	if(results.indexOf("-") != -1) {
@@ -83,7 +83,7 @@ function doWeb(doc, url) {
 		while(tableRow = tableRows.iterateNext()) {
 			var id = doc.evaluate('.//input[@name="R"]', tableRow, nsResolver, XPathResult.ANY_TYPE,
 				null).iterateNext().value;
-			items[id] = Zotero.Utilities.cleanString(doc.evaluate('.//span[@class="titles-title"]', tableRow,
+			items[id] = Zotero.Utilities.trimInternal(doc.evaluate('.//span[@class="titles-title"]', tableRow,
 				nsResolver, XPathResult.ANY_TYPE, null).iterateNext().textContent);
 		}
 		
@@ -132,7 +132,7 @@ function doWeb(doc, url) {
 				newItem = new Zotero.Item("journalArticle");
 			} else if(lines[i].substr(2, 4) == "  - " && haveStarted) {
 				var fieldCode = lines[i].substr(0, 2);
-				var fieldContent = Zotero.Utilities.cleanString(lines[i].substr(6));
+				var fieldContent = Zotero.Utilities.trimInternal(lines[i].substr(6));
 				if(fieldCode == "TI") {
 					newItem.title = fieldContent.replace(/\. \[\w+\]$/, "");
 				} else if(fieldCode == "AU") {
diff --git a/translators/PLoS Biology and Medicine.js b/translators/PLoS Biology and Medicine.js
index 10ff6bd1b..dcd5d6001 100644
--- a/translators/PLoS Biology and Medicine.js	
+++ b/translators/PLoS Biology and Medicine.js	
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ function doWeb(doc, url) {
 		var articles = doc.evaluate(xpath, doc, null, XPathResult.ANY_TYPE, null);
 		var next_article = articles.iterateNext();
 		while (next_article) {
-			items[next_article.href] = Zotero.Utilities.cleanString(next_article.textContent);
+			items[next_article.href] = Zotero.Utilities.trimInternal(next_article.textContent);
 			next_article = articles.iterateNext();
 		}
 		items = Zotero.selectItems(items);
diff --git a/translators/Patents - USPTO.js b/translators/Patents - USPTO.js
index 96bd7da4f..ce33b542f 100644
--- a/translators/Patents - USPTO.js	
+++ b/translators/Patents - USPTO.js	
@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ function scrape(doc) {
 			tmpTitle = tmpTitle + " - " + fontTags[i].innerHTML;
 		}
 	}
-	tmpTitle = Zotero.Utilities.cleanString(tmpTitle);
+	tmpTitle = Zotero.Utilities.trimInternal(tmpTitle);
 	tmpTitle = tmpTitle.replace(/<[^>]+>/g, "");
 	newItem.title = tmpTitle;
 	
diff --git a/translators/RSC Publishing.js b/translators/RSC Publishing.js
index 2a86ff711..e43497138 100644
--- a/translators/RSC Publishing.js	
+++ b/translators/RSC Publishing.js	
@@ -63,7 +63,7 @@ function doChap(newItem, chaptext)	{
 		if(chapdata[pos].indexOf("Editors")!=-1)	{
 			var editors=chapdata[pos].split(",");
 			for(var i=0; i<=editors.length-1; i++)	{
-				editors[i]=Zotero.Utilities.cleanString(editors[i]);
+				editors[i]=Zotero.Utilities.trimInternal(editors[i]);
 				var names=editors[i].split(" ");
 				var creators=new Array();
 				if(i==0)
@@ -78,7 +78,7 @@ function doChap(newItem, chaptext)	{
 		if(chapdata[pos].indexOf("Authors")!=-1)	{
 			var authors=chapdata[pos].split(",");
 			for(var i=0; i<=authors.length-1; i++)	{
-				authors[i]=Zotero.Utilities.cleanString(authors[i]);
+				authors[i]=Zotero.Utilities.trimInternal(authors[i]);
 				var names=authors[i].split(" ");
 				var creators=new Array();
 				if(i==0)
@@ -107,7 +107,7 @@ function doBook(newItem, bookdata)	{
 				vol=fields[pos].substring(i+1);
 			else
 				vol=fields[pos].substring(fields[pos].lastIndexOf(" "));
-			newItem.volume=Zotero.Utilities.cleanString(vol);
+			newItem.volume=Zotero.Utilities.trimInternal(vol);
 		}
 		if(fields[pos].indexOf("Edition")!=-1)	{
 			var i=fields[pos].lastIndexOf(";");
@@ -115,7 +115,7 @@ function doBook(newItem, bookdata)	{
 				ed=fields[pos].substring(i+1);
 			else
 				ed=fields[pos].substring(fields[pos].lastIndexOf(" "));
-			newItem.edition=Zotero.Utilities.cleanString(ed);
+			newItem.edition=Zotero.Utilities.trimInternal(ed);
 		}
 		if(fields[pos].indexOf("Copyright")!=-1)	{
 			var i=fields[pos].lastIndexOf(";");
@@ -124,7 +124,7 @@ function doBook(newItem, bookdata)	{
 				date=fields[pos].substring(i+1);
 			else
 				date=fields[pos].substring(fields[pos].indexOf(":")+2);
-			newItem.date=Zotero.Utilities.cleanString(date);
+			newItem.date=Zotero.Utilities.trimInternal(date);
 		}
 		if(fields[pos].indexOf("ISBN")!=-1&&fields[pos].indexOf("print")!=-1)	{
 			var i=fields[pos].lastIndexOf(";");
@@ -133,12 +133,12 @@ function doBook(newItem, bookdata)	{
 				isbn=fields[pos].substring(i+1);
 			else
 				isbn=fields[pos].substring(fields[pos].indexOf(":")+2);
-			newItem.ISBN=Zotero.Utilities.cleanString(isbn);
+			newItem.ISBN=Zotero.Utilities.trimInternal(isbn);
 		}
 		if(fields[pos].indexOf("Author")!=-1||fields[pos].indexOf("Editor")!=-1)	{
 			var authors=fields[pos].split(",");
 			for(var i=0; i<=authors.length-1; i++)	{
-				authors[i]=Zotero.Utilities.cleanString(authors[i]);
+				authors[i]=Zotero.Utilities.trimInternal(authors[i]);
 				var names=authors[i].split(" ");
 				var creators=new Array();
 				creators.firstName=names[0];
@@ -170,7 +170,7 @@ function doWeb(doc, url)	{
 			var items=new Array();
 			var doi;
 			while(doi=dois.iterateNext())
-				items[doi.nodeValue]=Zotero.Utilities.cleanString(titles.iterateNext().textContent);
+				items[doi.nodeValue]=Zotero.Utilities.trimInternal(titles.iterateNext().textContent);
 			items=Zotero.selectItems(items);
 			var string="http://www.rsc.org/delivery/_ArticleLinking/refdownload.asp?";
 			for(var codes in items)	{
@@ -257,7 +257,7 @@ function doWeb(doc, url)	{
 		var authors=auth.split(",");
 		if(newItem.title.indexOf("Interview")==-1)
 			for(var i=0; i<=authors.length-1; i++)	{
-				authors[i]=Zotero.Utilities.cleanString(authors[i]);
+				authors[i]=Zotero.Utilities.trimInternal(authors[i]);
 				var names=authors[i].split(" ");
 				var creator=new Array();
 				creator.firstName=names[0];
diff --git a/translators/RePEc.js b/translators/RePEc.js
index 21fa0257d..93cf5abed 100644
--- a/translators/RePEc.js
+++ b/translators/RePEc.js
@@ -118,7 +118,7 @@ function doWeb(doc, url) {
                    		}
                 		)
 				
-				items[bibcode] = Zotero.Utilities.cleanString(titleElmt.textContent);
+				items[bibcode] = Zotero.Utilities.trimInternal(titleElmt.textContent);
 
 			} while((bibElmt = bibElmts.iterateNext()) && (titleElmt = titleElmts.iterateNext()));
 
diff --git a/translators/SPIRES.js b/translators/SPIRES.js
index 5b76c2cf8..9150caf2b 100644
--- a/translators/SPIRES.js
+++ b/translators/SPIRES.js
@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ function doWeb(doc, url) {
 		// search page
 		var items = new Object();		
 		do {
-			items[citation.href] = Zotero.Utilities.cleanString(title.textContent);
+			items[citation.href] = Zotero.Utilities.trimInternal(title.textContent);
 		} while((citation=citations.iterateNext()) && (title=titles.iterateNext()))
 		
 		items = Zotero.selectItems(items);
diff --git a/translators/ScientificCommons.js b/translators/ScientificCommons.js
index 895464651..8e287461a 100644
--- a/translators/ScientificCommons.js
+++ b/translators/ScientificCommons.js
@@ -62,7 +62,7 @@ function doWeb(doc, url) {
 			id = doc.evaluate('./@id', listElt, nsResolver, XPathResult.ANY_TYPE, null).iterateNext().nodeValue;
 			link = host + "/export/ris/" + id;
 			title = doc.evaluate('.//p[@class="title"]', listElt, nsResolver, XPathResult.ANY_TYPE, null).iterateNext().textContent;
-			items[link] = Zotero.Utilities.cleanString(title);
+			items[link] = Zotero.Utilities.trimInternal(title);
 		} 
 
 		items = Zotero.selectItems(items);
diff --git a/translators/Scitation.js b/translators/Scitation.js
index 493b37faf..cf7929577 100644
--- a/translators/Scitation.js
+++ b/translators/Scitation.js
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ function doWeb(doc, url) {
 		var title;
 		do {
 			title = doc.evaluate('../../..//a[1]',multid, nsResolver, XPathResult.ANY_TYPE, null).iterateNext();
-			items[multid.value] = Zotero.Utilities.cleanString(title.textContent);
+			items[multid.value] = Zotero.Utilities.trimInternal(title.textContent);
 		} while (multid =multids.iterateNext());
 		
 		items = Zotero.selectItems(items);
diff --git a/translators/The New York Review of Books.js b/translators/The New York Review of Books.js
index 8c7b17257..38f7048df 100644
--- a/translators/The New York Review of Books.js	
+++ b/translators/The New York Review of Books.js	
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ function detectWeb(doc, url) {
 
 function associateMeta(newItem, metaTags, field, zoteroField) {
 	if(metaTags.namedItem(field)) {
-		newItem[zoteroField] = Zotero.Utilities.cleanString(metaTags.namedItem(field).getAttribute("content"));
+		newItem[zoteroField] = Zotero.Utilities.trimInternal(metaTags.namedItem(field).getAttribute("content"));
 	}
 }
 
@@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ function scrape(doc) {
 			newItem.date = newItem.date.textContent;
 		}
 		
-		info = Zotero.Utilities.cleanString(info.textContent);
+		info = Zotero.Utilities.trimInternal(info.textContent);
 		
 		// get volume and issue
 		var infoRe = /Volume ([0-9]+), Number ([0-9]+)/;
diff --git a/translators/Time-Blog.com.js b/translators/Time-Blog.com.js
index bcedcf479..dcbff699c 100644
--- a/translators/Time-Blog.com.js
+++ b/translators/Time-Blog.com.js
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ function scrape(doc, url) {
 	}
 	
 	if (metaTags["description"]) {
-		newItem.abstractNote = Zotero.Utilities.cleanString(Zotero.Utilities.cleanTags(metaTags["description"]));
+		newItem.abstractNote = Zotero.Utilities.trimInternal(Zotero.Utilities.cleanTags(metaTags["description"]));
 	}
 	
 	if (metaTags["date"]) {
@@ -80,7 +80,7 @@ function scrape(doc, url) {
 	}
 	
 	if (doc.evaluate('//span[@class="postedby"]', doc, null, XPathResult.ANY_TYPE, null).iterateNext()) {
-		var byline = Zotero.Utilities.cleanString(doc.evaluate('//span[@class="postedby"]', doc, null, XPathResult.ANY_TYPE, null).iterateNext().textContent);
+		var byline = Zotero.Utilities.trimInternal(doc.evaluate('//span[@class="postedby"]', doc, null, XPathResult.ANY_TYPE, null).iterateNext().textContent);
 		if (byline.substr(0,9).toLowerCase() == "posted by") {
 			byline = byline.substr(10).split(" ");
 		} else {
diff --git a/translators/Unidade de Biologia da Conservaçao.js b/translators/Unidade de Biologia da Conservaçao.js
index fdb9c16ad..1f761706e 100644
--- a/translators/Unidade de Biologia da Conservaçao.js	
+++ b/translators/Unidade de Biologia da Conservaçao.js	
@@ -44,8 +44,8 @@ function doWeb(doc, url) {
 function scrape(doc,url) {
        var xpath = "/html/body/div/div/div[3]/div[3]/table/tbody/tr/td"
        var xpathurl ="/html/body/div/div/div[3]/div[3]/table/tbody/tr/td/a[1]"
-       var allRefText = Zotero.Utilities.cleanString(doc.evaluate(xpath, doc, null, XPathResult.ANY_TYPE, null).iterateNext().textContent);
-       var allRefTexturl = Zotero.Utilities.cleanString(doc.evaluate(xpathurl, doc, null, XPathResult.ANY_TYPE, null).iterateNext().textContent);
+       var allRefText = Zotero.Utilities.trimInternal(doc.evaluate(xpath, doc, null, XPathResult.ANY_TYPE, null).iterateNext().textContent);
+       var allRefTexturl = Zotero.Utilities.trimInternal(doc.evaluate(xpathurl, doc, null, XPathResult.ANY_TYPE, null).iterateNext().textContent);
 
 
 
diff --git a/translators/arXiv.org.js b/translators/arXiv.org.js
index 3c7f0550e..f082dc155 100644
--- a/translators/arXiv.org.js
+++ b/translators/arXiv.org.js
@@ -74,7 +74,7 @@ function doWeb(doc, url) {
 				newID = newID.replace(/arXiv:/, "");
 				newID = newID.replace(/\//g, "%2F");
 				newID = newID.replace(/v\d*/, ""); //remove version number 
-				availableItems[i] = Zotero.Utilities.cleanString(title.textContent.replace(/^\s*Title:\s+/, "")); 
+				availableItems[i] = Zotero.Utilities.trimInternal(title.textContent.replace(/^\s*Title:\s+/, "")); 
 				arXivIDs[i] = newID;
 				i++;
 			} while ((elmt = elmts.iterateNext()) && (title = titles.iterateNext()));
@@ -123,7 +123,7 @@ function doWeb(doc, url) {
 		var test = xml..responseDate.text().toString();
 
 		if (citation.dc_title.length()){
-			title = Zotero.Utilities.cleanString(citation.dc_title.text().toString());
+			title = Zotero.Utilities.trimInternal(citation.dc_title.text().toString());
 			newItem.title = title;
 		}
 		Zotero.debug("article title: " + title);
@@ -137,26 +137,26 @@ function doWeb(doc, url) {
 		}
 		if (citation.dc_date.length()) {
 			var dates = citation.dc_date;
-			newItem.date = Zotero.Utilities.cleanString(dates[0].text().toString());
+			newItem.date = Zotero.Utilities.trimInternal(dates[0].text().toString());
 		}
 		if (citation.dc_description.length()) {
 			var descriptions = citation.dc_description;
 			for (var j=0; j<descriptions.length(); j++) {
-				var noteStr = Zotero.Utilities.cleanString(descriptions[j].text().toString());
+				var noteStr = Zotero.Utilities.trimInternal(descriptions[j].text().toString());
 				newItem.notes.push({note:noteStr});
 			}
 		}
 		if (citation.dc_subject.length()) {
 			var subjects = citation.dc_subject;
 			for (var j=0; j<subjects.length(); j++) { 
-				var subjectValue = Zotero.Utilities.cleanString(subjects[j].text().toString());
+				var subjectValue = Zotero.Utilities.trimInternal(subjects[j].text().toString());
 				newItem.tags.push(subjectValue);
 			}
 		}
 		if (citation.dc_identifier.length()) {
 			var identifiers = citation.dc_identifier;
 			for (var j=0; j<identifiers.length(); j++) {
-				var identifier = Zotero.Utilities.cleanString(identifiers[j].text().toString());
+				var identifier = Zotero.Utilities.trimInternal(identifiers[j].text().toString());
 				if (identifier.substr(0, 4) == "doi:") {
 					newItem.DOI = identifier;
 				}
diff --git a/translators/eLibrary.ru.js b/translators/eLibrary.ru.js
index 0f9a217b4..1a82230f7 100644
--- a/translators/eLibrary.ru.js
+++ b/translators/eLibrary.ru.js
@@ -187,7 +187,7 @@ function scrape (doc) {
 		if (abstractBlock)
 			item.abstractNote = doc.evaluate('./tbody/tr/td[2]/table/tbody/tr/td/font', abstractBlock, ns, XPathResult.ANY_TYPE, null).iterateNext().textContent;
 		/*if (referenceBlock) {
-			var note = Zotero.Utilities.cleanString(
+			var note = Zotero.Utilities.trimInternal(
 							doc.evaluate('./tbody/tr/td[2]/table', referenceBlock, ns, XPathResult.ANY_TYPE, null)
 							.iterateNext().textContent);
 			Zotero.debug(note);
diff --git a/translators/eMJA.js b/translators/eMJA.js
index 4e7a1ef77..56fbf1f57 100644
--- a/translators/eMJA.js
+++ b/translators/eMJA.js
@@ -52,9 +52,9 @@ function doWeb(doc, url) {
 			var title = titles.iterateNext();
 			var link = links.iterateNext();
 			while (title) {
-				//Zotero.debug(Zotero.Utilities.cleanString(title.textContent));
-				//Zotero.debug(Zotero.Utilities.cleanString(link.textContent));
-				items[Zotero.Utilities.cleanString(link.textContent)] = Zotero.Utilities.cleanString(title.textContent).substring(6);
+				//Zotero.debug(Zotero.Utilities.trimInternal(title.textContent));
+				//Zotero.debug(Zotero.Utilities.trimInternal(link.textContent));
+				items[Zotero.Utilities.trimInternal(link.textContent)] = Zotero.Utilities.trimInternal(title.textContent).substring(6);
 				title = titles.iterateNext();
 				link = links.iterateNext();
 			}
@@ -63,7 +63,7 @@ function doWeb(doc, url) {
 			var things = doc.evaluate(xpath, doc, null, XPathResult.ANY_TYPE, null);
 			var next_thing = things.iterateNext();
 			while (next_thing) {
-				items[next_thing.href] = senCase(Zotero.Utilities.cleanString(next_thing.textContent));
+				items[next_thing.href] = senCase(Zotero.Utilities.trimInternal(next_thing.textContent));
 				next_thing = things.iterateNext();
 			}
 		}
diff --git a/translators/washingtonpost.com.js b/translators/washingtonpost.com.js
index 28c7b72d5..57ea93a9c 100644
--- a/translators/washingtonpost.com.js
+++ b/translators/washingtonpost.com.js
@@ -73,7 +73,7 @@ function scrape(doc) {
 	while(font = fonts.iterateNext()) {
 		var pageRe = /([^;]+);(?:[\xA0 ]+Pages?[\xA0 ]+([A-Z0-9\-]+))?/
 		// grab pages and date
-		Zotero.debug(Zotero.Utilities.cleanString(font.nodeValue));
+		Zotero.debug(Zotero.Utilities.trimInternal(font.nodeValue));
 		var m = pageRe.exec(font.nodeValue);
 		if(m) {
 			newItem.date = m[1];