diff --git a/CHANGELOG b/CHANGELOG
index 0e7331c64..dcb86ab13 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG
+++ b/CHANGELOG
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ CHANGELOG RoundCube Webmail
 2008/04/16 (alec)
 ----------
 - Fix typo in set_charset() (#1484991)
+- Decode entities when inserting HTML signature to plain text message (#1484990)
 
 2008/04/15 (estadtherr)
 ----------
diff --git a/program/steps/mail/compose.inc b/program/steps/mail/compose.inc
index 4c4121a35..9989a82b6 100644
--- a/program/steps/mail/compose.inc
+++ b/program/steps/mail/compose.inc
@@ -241,7 +241,7 @@ function rcmail_compose_headers($attrib)
 
 function rcmail_compose_header_from($attrib)
 {
-  global $IMAP, $MESSAGE, $DB, $USER, $OUTPUT, $compose_mode;
+  global $IMAP, $MESSAGE, $DB, $USER, $OUTPUT, $CONFIG, $compose_mode;
     
   // pass the following attributes to the form class
   $field_attrib = array('name' => '_from');
@@ -298,7 +298,7 @@ function rcmail_compose_header_from($attrib)
         {
             $h2t = new html2text($a_signatures[$identity_id]['text'], false, false);
             $plainTextPart = $h2t->get_text();
-            $a_signatures[$identity_id]['plain_text'] = trim($plainTextPart);
+            $a_signatures[$identity_id]['plain_text'] = trim(html_entity_decode($plainTextPart, ENT_NOQUOTES, 'UTF-8'));
         }
       }