Unescape HTML entities in Javascript?

Question

I have some Javascript code that communicates with an XML-RPC backend. The XML-RPC returns strings of the form:

Answer 1

I use this in my project: inspired by other answers but with an extra secure parameter, can be useful when you deal with decorated characters

var decodeEntities=(function(){

    var el=document.createElement('div');
    return function(str, safeEscape){

        if(str && typeof str === 'string'){

            str=str.replace(/\

And it's usable like:

var label='safe  character éntity';
var safehtml='
'+decodeEntities(label, true)+'
';