diff --git a/components/motd.php b/components/motd.php
index 2e37c6d12bb554673e13d1bb1108d2f1d60c336a..768c483dc2c68bb044cdcb771b663d9d4335261d 100644
--- a/components/motd.php
+++ b/components/motd.php
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ function decode_entities($text, $quote_style = ENT_COMPAT) {
        $trans_tbl = array_flip($trans_tbl);
        $text = strtr($text, $trans_tbl);
    }
-   $text = preg_replace('–', '-', $text);
+   $text = preg_replace('~–~ei', '-', $text);
    $text = preg_replace('~&#x([0-9a-f]+);~ei', 'chr(hexdec("\\1"))', $text);
    $text = preg_replace('~&#([0-9]+);~e', 'chr("\\1")', $text);
    return $text;