diff --git a/include/diaspora.php b/include/diaspora.php
index a398007e19..5ab0ee6749 100755
--- a/include/diaspora.php
+++ b/include/diaspora.php
@@ -844,7 +844,7 @@ function diaspora_reshare($importer,$xml) {
 	else
 		$details = $orig_author;
 	
-	$prefix = '♲ ' . $details . "\n"; 
+	$prefix = html_entity_decode("♲ ", ENT_QUOTES, 'UTF-8') . $details . "\n"; 
 
 
 	// allocate a guid on our system - we aren't fixing any collisions.