diff --git a/bibtexbrowser.php b/bibtexbrowser.php
index 6288293..5d1c01d 100755
--- a/bibtexbrowser.php
+++ b/bibtexbrowser.php
@@ -3424,8 +3424,8 @@ class RSSDisplay {
     // first strip HTML tags 
     $desc = strip_tags($desc);
   
-    // then decode characters encoded by latex2html
-    $desc= html_entity_decode($desc);
+    // then decode characters encoded by latex2html, preserve ENCODING
+    $desc = html_entity_decode($desc, ENT_COMPAT, ENCODING);
 
     // some entities may still be here, we remove them
     // we replace html entities e.g. é by nothing