diff --git a/include/items.php b/include/items.php
index 40b2c14b45..3b09dfa688 100755
--- a/include/items.php
+++ b/include/items.php
@@ -533,7 +533,7 @@ function get_atom_elements($feed,$item) {
 		$res['body'] = $rawenv[0]['data'];
 		$res['body'] = str_replace(array(' ',"\t","\r","\n"), array('','','',''),$res['body']);
 		// make sure nobody is trying to sneak some html tags by us
-		$res['body'] = htmlspecialchars(base64url_decode($res['body']),ENT_QUOTES,'UTF-8');
+		$res['body'] = notags(base64url_decode($res['body']));
 	}