Index: lucene/highlighter/src/java/org/apache/lucene/search/highlight/SimpleHTMLEncoder.java
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--- lucene/highlighter/src/java/org/apache/lucene/search/highlight/SimpleHTMLEncoder.java	(revision 1518327)
+++ lucene/highlighter/src/java/org/apache/lucene/search/highlight/SimpleHTMLEncoder.java	(working copy)
@@ -66,14 +66,7 @@
         break;
 
       default:
-           if (ch < 128)
-           {
-                 result.append(ch);
-             }
-           else
-             {
-                 result.append("&#").append((int)ch).append(";");
-             }
+        result.append(ch);
       }
     }