diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 183037e..318cfe6 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -3,4 +3,5 @@ vendor/
 /demo/bower_components
 /demo/node_modules
 .DS_Store
-.idea
\ No newline at end of file
+.idea
+.phpunit.result.cache
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/lib/Caxy/HtmlDiff/Table/TableDiff.php b/lib/Caxy/HtmlDiff/Table/TableDiff.php
index ed46d94..58b7057 100644
--- a/lib/Caxy/HtmlDiff/Table/TableDiff.php
+++ b/lib/Caxy/HtmlDiff/Table/TableDiff.php
@@ -590,8 +590,8 @@ protected function diffCells($oldCell, $newCell, $usingExtraRow = false)
         $newContent = $newCell ? $this->getInnerHtml($newCell->getDomNode()) : '';
 
         $htmlDiff = HtmlDiff::create(
-            mb_convert_encoding($oldContent, 'UTF-8', 'HTML-ENTITIES'),
-            mb_convert_encoding($newContent, 'UTF-8', 'HTML-ENTITIES'),
+            html_entity_decode($oldContent, ENT_QUOTES | ENT_HTML5, 'UTF-8'),
+            html_entity_decode($newContent, ENT_QUOTES | ENT_HTML5, 'UTF-8'),
             $this->config
         );
         $diff = $htmlDiff->build();