html_entity_decode problem

[folley]

I have a problem with decoding htmlentities from a Mysqldatabase. I imported all the data from a text file in which all this encoded words occur. But I want them to be displayed in readable form on my testpage:http://www.localtouch.nl/aabase/test.php.

At the start of my page I tested the html_entity_decode and it works:

PHP:
<?php
$orig = "De hele wereld komt samen in dit kleine en informele caf&#233;. Hier leg je gemakkelijk contact met Amsterdammers, hier leer je Amsterdam kennen. Informeel en ongedwongen.";

$a = htmlentities($orig);

$b = html_entity_decode($a);

echo $b;
?>

As expected this correctly displays the word café. However if I retreive the same string from Mysql I get caf&#233;

I use the following code to get the variable from mysql
PHP:
<?php
echo html_entity_decode(htmlentities($row_Recordset1['shorttext_nl']));
?>

Now if I remove the ; ending from &#233; the word is displayed in decoded form as I want it. I could remove all the ; but that creates other problems so I was hoping someone knows a better solution. Any ideas?

[folley]

Sorry about my post, because it doesn't make sense. This is because the forum decodes all my &#etc codes.