diff --git a/conlite/classes/class.i18n.php b/conlite/classes/class.i18n.php
index dc381e6..ed56daf 100644
--- a/conlite/classes/class.i18n.php
+++ b/conlite/classes/class.i18n.php
@@ -130,12 +130,7 @@ class cI18n {
 
         // Is emulator to use?
         if (!$cfg['native_i18n']) {
-            $ret = self::emulateGettext($string, $domain);
-            // hopefully a proper replacement for
-            // mb_convert_encoding($string, 'HTML-ENTITIES', 'utf-8');
-            // see http://stackoverflow.com/q/11974008
-            $ret = htmlspecialchars_decode(utf8_decode(conHtmlentities($ret, ENT_COMPAT, 'utf-8', false)));
-            return $ret;
+            return mb_convert_encoding(self::emulateGettext($string, $domain), 'HTML-ENTITIES', 'utf-8');
         }
 
         // Try to use native gettext implementation