diff --git a/web-lib-funcs.pl b/web-lib-funcs.pl
index 83d4ac01d..63b9e7ffa 100755
--- a/web-lib-funcs.pl
+++ b/web-lib-funcs.pl
@@ -284,6 +284,10 @@ $str =~ s/"/"/g;
 $str =~ s/'/'/g;
 $str =~ s/=/=/g;
 $str =~ s/ / /g;
+eval "use HTML::Entities";
+if (!$@) {
+	$str = decode_entities($str);
+	}
 return $str;
 }