diff --git a/chapter07/console.xml b/chapter07/console.xml
index 797861dc9..4becd8d3b 100644
--- a/chapter07/console.xml
+++ b/chapter07/console.xml
@@ -213,7 +213,7 @@ EOF</userinput></screen>
       languages, because there accents are added to unaccented ASCII
       characters, or two ASCII characters are composed together. However, in
       UTF-8 mode it is a problem, e.g., for the Greek language, where one
-      sometimes needs to put an accent on the letter <quote>&alpha;</quote>.
+      sometimes needs to put an accent on the letter <quote>alpha</quote>.
       The solution is either to avoid the use of UTF-8, or to install the
       X window system that doesn't have this limitation in its input
       handling.</para>