convert ampersand encoded HTML into something readable

[tetsuoii]

I'm extracting strings from a webpage, but they are full of national characters encoded in html ampersand - hash - ascii code digits - semicolon format, looking something like this:

"sekretær i kø"

This is awful, and I can't find any information on how to decode these special characters, to the point where I'm close to writing a parser just for the purpose. The web page is encoded in utf-8 format, and the browser has no problem displaying it but in Qt all I get is mangled text strings...

Does anyone know how to read html encoded characters right?