diff -Naur screenlets-0.1.7.orig/src/lib/__init__.py screenlets-0.1.7/src/lib/__init__.py
--- screenlets-0.1.7.orig/src/lib/__init__.py	2018-09-07 05:15:53.772422000 +0200
+++ screenlets-0.1.7/src/lib/__init__.py	2018-09-07 05:33:33.317360251 +0200
@@ -2429,7 +2429,6 @@
 			if name== 'width':
 				self.p_layout.set_width(width)
 			elif name == 'text':
-				value = utils.html_to_pango(value)
 				self.p_layout.set_markup(value)
 				self.label.set_markup(value)
 				ink_rect, logical_rect = self.p_layout.get_pixel_extents()
diff -Naur screenlets-0.1.7.orig/src/lib/utils.py screenlets-0.1.7/src/lib/utils.py
--- screenlets-0.1.7.orig/src/lib/utils.py	2018-09-07 05:15:53.782423000 +0200
+++ screenlets-0.1.7/src/lib/utils.py	2018-09-07 05:32:37.545761868 +0200
@@ -33,7 +33,6 @@
 import subprocess
 import commands
 from HTMLParser import HTMLParser
-from BeautifulSoup import BeautifulStoneSoup
 from xdg.BaseDirectory import *
 
 try:
@@ -93,15 +92,6 @@
     def get_data(self):
         return ''.join(self.fed)
 
-def html_to_pango (html):	
-	"""Simple html to pango stripper."""
-	s = MLStripper()
-	s.feed(html)
-	no_html = s.get_data()
-	decoded = BeautifulStoneSoup(no_html, convertEntities=BeautifulStoneSoup.HTML_ENTITIES)
-	result = decoded.encode("UTF-8")
-	return result.strip(" \n")
-
 def is_manager_running_me():
 	"""checks if the one starting the screenlet is the screenlets manager"""
 	if str(sys.argv[0]).find('screenlets-manager') != -1: