diff --git a/src/PhpWord/Shared/Html.php b/src/PhpWord/Shared/Html.php
index 8abfea2fd7..75e1307098 100644
--- a/src/PhpWord/Shared/Html.php
+++ b/src/PhpWord/Shared/Html.php
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ public static function addHtml($element, $html, $fullHTML = false)
// Preprocess: remove all line ends, decode HTML entity, and add body tag for HTML fragments
$html = str_replace(array("\n", "\r"), '', $html);
- $html = html_entity_decode($html);
+ $html = html_entity_decode($html, null, 'UTF-8');
if ($fullHTML === false) {
$html = '' . $html . '';
}