diff --git a/application/hooks/gettext/vendor/php-gettext/gettext.php b/application/hooks/gettext/vendor/php-gettext/gettext.php
index abde1b7f7..22fae16dd 100644
--- a/application/hooks/gettext/vendor/php-gettext/gettext.php
+++ b/application/hooks/gettext/vendor/php-gettext/gettext.php
@@ -211,7 +211,7 @@ function _encode($text)
 		if ($source_encoding != $target_encoding) $text = mb_convert_encoding($text, $target_encoding, $source_encoding);
 	}
 
-	return $text;
+	return htmlentities($text);
 }
 
 // Custom implementation of the standard gettext related functions