From 042d74059367ae3632bda98743d0b7d21ce8acd7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Kovid Goyal <kovid@kovidgoyal.net>
Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2019 15:02:31 +0530
Subject: [PATCH] ...

---
 src/calibre/utils/html2text.py | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/calibre/utils/html2text.py b/src/calibre/utils/html2text.py
index 76b560fd3f..9cffa2f951 100644
--- a/src/calibre/utils/html2text.py
+++ b/src/calibre/utils/html2text.py
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ def html2text(html):
     import re
     if isinstance(html, bytes):
         from calibre.ebooks.chardet import xml_to_unicode
-        html = xml_to_unicode(html, strip_encoding_pats=True, resolve_entities=True)
+        html = xml_to_unicode(html, strip_encoding_pats=True, resolve_entities=True)[0]
     # replace <u> tags with <span> as <u> becomes emphasis in html2text
     html = re.sub(
             r'<\s*(?P<solidus>/?)\s*[uU]\b(?P<rest>[^>]*)>',