diff --git a/components/motd.php b/components/motd.php
index ecffa7b65ce73b3ba6e9e162fc81554bfa851e0b..272f2287cd093beb87d2d32f3f6f63b4af6ad8db 100644
--- a/components/motd.php
+++ b/components/motd.php
@@ -39,6 +39,7 @@ $body = str_replace("<br />", "\n    ", $body);
 $body = str_replace("<li>", "  * ", $body);
 $body = str_replace("</li>", "\n    ", $body);
 $body = str_replace("&nbsp;", " ", $body);
+$body = str_replace("&hellip;", "...", $body);
 // remove hyperlinks, collect to display later
 $body = preg_replace(":<a href=['\"](.+?)['\"].*?>(.*?)</a>:e", "'\\2['.linkcounter('\\1').']'", $body);
 $body = strip_tags($body);