diff --git a/lib/request/basic.py b/lib/request/basic.py
index 12c64b92c..b8ee69347 100644
--- a/lib/request/basic.py
+++ b/lib/request/basic.py
@@ -213,7 +213,7 @@ def decodePage(page, contentEncoding, contentType):
     if contentType and not isinstance(page, unicode) and any(map(lambda x: x in contentType.lower(), ("text/txt", "text/raw", "text/html", "text/xml"))):
         # e.g. Ãëàâà
         if "&#" in page:
-            page = re.sub('&#(\d+);', lambda _: chr(int(_.group(1))) if int(_.group(1)) < 256 else _.group(0), page)
+            page = re.sub('&#(\d{1,3});', lambda _: chr(int(_.group(1))) if int(_.group(1)) < 256 else _.group(0), page)
 
         kb.pageEncoding = kb.pageEncoding or checkCharEncoding(getHeuristicCharEncoding(page))
         page = getUnicode(page, kb.pageEncoding)