diff --git a/ext/afform/core/CRM/Afform/ArrayHtml.php b/ext/afform/core/CRM/Afform/ArrayHtml.php
index 92a2caca84c2..307e16b09821 100644
--- a/ext/afform/core/CRM/Afform/ArrayHtml.php
+++ b/ext/afform/core/CRM/Afform/ArrayHtml.php
@@ -371,7 +371,7 @@ protected function decodeAttrValue($type, $txtAttrValue) {
    * @return string
    */
   public function replaceUnicodeChars($markup) {
-    return mb_convert_encoding($markup, 'HTML-ENTITIES', 'UTF-8');
+    return htmlspecialchars_decode(htmlentities($markup, ENT_COMPAT, 'utf-8', FALSE));
   }
 
   /**