diff --git a/PseudoLocalizationTranslator.php b/PseudoLocalizationTranslator.php
index 1d10e0cc..848dc1d2 100644
--- a/PseudoLocalizationTranslator.php
+++ b/PseudoLocalizationTranslator.php
@@ -123,7 +123,7 @@ private function getParts(string $originalTrans): array
             return [[true, true, $originalTrans]];
         }
 
-        $html = mb_convert_encoding($originalTrans, 'HTML-ENTITIES', mb_detect_encoding($originalTrans, null, true) ?: 'UTF-8');
+        $html = mb_encode_numericentity($originalTrans, [0x80, 0xFFFF, 0, 0xFFFF], mb_detect_encoding($originalTrans, null, true) ?: 'UTF-8');
 
         $useInternalErrors = libxml_use_internal_errors(true);