diff --git a/components/motd.php b/components/motd.php
index 60a48604f672ede7eecee7a9f54032cfc1559887..11ac8d1c12a38266ab3e810c9805ad2dfdc5b426 100644
--- a/components/motd.php
+++ b/components/motd.php
@@ -49,6 +49,7 @@ $body = str_replace("<li>", "  * ", $body);
 $body = str_replace("</li>", "\n    ", $body);
 $body = str_replace("&nbsp;", " ", $body);
 $body = str_replace("&hellip;", "...", $body);
+$body = str_replace("&apos;", "'", $body);
 // remove hyperlinks, collect to display later
 $body = preg_replace(":<a href=['\"](.+?)['\"].*?>(.*?)</a>:e", "'\\2['.linkcounter('\\1').']'", $body);
 $body = strip_tags($body);