diff --git a/ebook_converter/__init__.py b/ebook_converter/__init__.py
index 86292fd..8fec1d1 100644
--- a/ebook_converter/__init__.py
+++ b/ebook_converter/__init__.py
@@ -29,11 +29,6 @@ class CurrentDir(object):
 _ent_pat = re.compile(r'&(\S+?);')
 
 
-def xml_replace_entities(raw, encoding='cp1252'):
-    return _ent_pat.sub(partial(entities.xml_entity_to_unicode,
-                                encoding=encoding), raw)
-
-
 def prepare_string_for_xml(raw, attribute=False):
     raw = _ent_pat.sub(entities.entity_to_unicode, raw)
     raw = raw.replace('&', '&amp;').replace('<', '&lt;').replace('>', '&gt;')
diff --git a/ebook_converter/ebooks/oeb/parse_utils.py b/ebook_converter/ebooks/oeb/parse_utils.py
index 6b84eab..3d0a119 100644
--- a/ebook_converter/ebooks/oeb/parse_utils.py
+++ b/ebook_converter/ebooks/oeb/parse_utils.py
@@ -5,10 +5,10 @@ from lxml import etree
 from lxml import html
 
 from ebook_converter import constants as const
-from ebook_converter import xml_replace_entities
 from ebook_converter.constants_old import filesystem_encoding
 from ebook_converter.ebooks.chardet import xml_to_unicode, strip_encoding_declarations
 from ebook_converter.utils import encoding as uenc
+from ebook_converter.utils import entities
 
 
 RECOVER_PARSER = etree.XMLParser(recover=True, no_network=True,
@@ -208,9 +208,8 @@ def parse_html(data, log=None, decoder=None, preprocessor=None,
         data = etree.fromstring(data)
         check_for_html5(pre, data)
     except (HTML5Doc, etree.XMLSyntaxError):
-        log.debug('Initial parse failed, using more'
-                ' forgiving parsers')
-        raw = data = xml_replace_entities(raw)
+        log.debug('Initial parse failed, using more forgiving parsers')
+        raw = data = entities.xml_replace_entities(raw)
         try:
             data = etree.fromstring(data)
             check_for_html5(pre, data)
diff --git a/ebook_converter/ebooks/oeb/polish/parsing.py b/ebook_converter/ebooks/oeb/polish/parsing.py
index 99cbd5e..4dfeac1 100644
--- a/ebook_converter/ebooks/oeb/polish/parsing.py
+++ b/ebook_converter/ebooks/oeb/polish/parsing.py
@@ -4,10 +4,10 @@ from lxml import etree
 import html5_parser
 
 from ebook_converter import constants as const
-from ebook_converter import xml_replace_entities
 from ebook_converter.ebooks.chardet import strip_encoding_declarations
 from ebook_converter.ebooks.chardet import xml_to_unicode
 from ebook_converter.utils.cleantext import clean_xml_chars
+from ebook_converter.utils import entities
 
 
 def parse_html5(raw, decoder=None, log=None, discard_namespaces=False,
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ def parse_html5(raw, decoder=None, log=None, discard_namespaces=False,
     if isinstance(raw, bytes):
         raw = xml_to_unicode(raw)[0] if decoder is None else decoder(raw)
     if replace_entities:
-        raw = xml_replace_entities(raw)
+        raw = entities.xml_replace_entities(raw)
     if fix_newlines:
         raw = raw.replace('\r\n', '\n').replace('\r', '\n')
     raw = clean_xml_chars(raw)
@@ -61,7 +61,8 @@ def parse(raw, decoder=None, log=None, line_numbers=True,
         raw = xml_to_unicode(raw)[0] if decoder is None else decoder(raw)
     raw = handle_private_entities(raw)
     if replace_entities:
-        raw = xml_replace_entities(raw).replace('\0', '')  # Handle &#0;
+        # Handle &#0;
+        raw = entities.xml_replace_entities(raw).replace('\0', '')
     raw = raw.replace('\r\n', '\n').replace('\r', '\n')
 
     # Remove any preamble before the opening html tag as it can cause problems,
diff --git a/ebook_converter/ebooks/oeb/reader.py b/ebook_converter/ebooks/oeb/reader.py
index d92403f..da1a9a9 100644
--- a/ebook_converter/ebooks/oeb/reader.py
+++ b/ebook_converter/ebooks/oeb/reader.py
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ from ebook_converter.utils.cleantext import clean_xml_chars
 from ebook_converter.utils.localization import get_lang
 from ebook_converter.ptempfile import TemporaryDirectory
 from ebook_converter.constants_old import __appname__, __version__
-from ebook_converter import xml_replace_entities
+from ebook_converter.utils import entities
 from ebook_converter.polyglot.urllib import unquote
 
 
@@ -107,7 +107,8 @@ class OEBReader(object):
         try:
             opf = etree.fromstring(data)
         except etree.XMLSyntaxError:
-            data = xml_replace_entities(clean_xml_chars(data), encoding=None)
+            data = entities.xml_replace_entities(clean_xml_chars(data),
+                                                 encoding=None)
             try:
                 opf = etree.fromstring(data)
                 self.logger.warn('OPF contains invalid HTML named entities')
diff --git a/ebook_converter/ebooks/pdf/pdftohtml.py b/ebook_converter/ebooks/pdf/pdftohtml.py
index 8c8b03f..af10f7b 100644
--- a/ebook_converter/ebooks/pdf/pdftohtml.py
+++ b/ebook_converter/ebooks/pdf/pdftohtml.py
@@ -6,11 +6,12 @@ import subprocess
 
 from lxml import etree
 
-from ebook_converter import CurrentDir, xml_replace_entities
+from ebook_converter import CurrentDir
 from ebook_converter.ebooks import ConversionError, DRMError
 from ebook_converter.ebooks.chardet import xml_to_unicode
 from ebook_converter.ptempfile import PersistentTemporaryFile
 from ebook_converter.utils.cleantext import clean_xml_chars
+from ebook_converter.utils import entities
 from ebook_converter.utils.ipc import eintr_retry_call
 
 
@@ -84,7 +85,7 @@ def pdftohtml(output_dir, pdf_path, no_images, as_xml=False):
                              flags=re.I)
                 raw = re.sub(r'<a href="index.html#(\d+)"', r'<a href="#p\1"',
                              raw, flags=re.I)
-                raw = xml_replace_entities(raw)
+                raw = entities.xml_replace_entities(raw)
                 raw = raw.replace('\u00a0', ' ')
 
                 i.write(raw.encode('utf-8'))