2 files changed, 6 insertions, 7 deletions

diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index dacf4af..6f21dda 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -87,8 +87,6 @@ Usage of french-wiktionary-flashcards:
 - allow setting the language for initial processing, so that we could support
   languages other than French
 - general code cleanup & organization
-- render HTML entities in definitions -- do some grepping to identify the most
-  common ones
 - italicise part-of-speech in the TUI (maybe remove numbers from them)
 - better gender tags -- jq through the source data to see what's common
 - some kind of tests?
diff --git a/ui.go b/ui.go
index eea1269..3c4dbb7 100644
--- a/ui.go
+++ b/ui.go
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ import (
 	"database/sql"
 	"errors"
 	"fmt"
+	"html"
 	"net/http"
 	"regexp"
 	"strings"
@@ -178,15 +179,15 @@ func formatDefinitionForDisplay(policy bluemonday.Policy, definition string, max
 
 	// Remove all HTML tags
 	str = policy.Sanitize(str)
+	// Some Wiktionary entries have HTML entities in them. That's okay for Anki,
+	// but it's not okay for displaying the plain text in the console interface.
+	str = html.UnescapeString(str)
 
 	// Add some colour to the start of each definition
 	str = strings.ReplaceAll(str, "\t- ", "\x1b[0;33;49m•\x1b[0m ")
 
-	// Replace common HTML entities
-	str = strings.ReplaceAll(str, "'", "’")
-	str = strings.ReplaceAll(str, "&", "&")
-
-	// Wrap
+	// Limit the width of the displayed definition to 80 characters, or the
+	// width of the viewport (whichever is smaller).
 	width := min(maxWidth, 80)
 	return wordwrap.String(str, width)
 }