diff --git a/aqt/editor.py b/aqt/editor.py
index 9b102b88c..bd509338c 100644
--- a/aqt/editor.py
+++ b/aqt/editor.py
@@ -449,6 +449,9 @@ class Editor(object):
             txt = self.mungeHTML(txt)
             # misbehaving apps may include a null byte in the text
             txt = txt.replace("\x00", "")
+            # reverse the url quoting we added to get images to display
+            txt = unicode(urllib2.unquote(
+                txt.encode("utf8")), "utf8", "replace")
             self.note.fields[self.currentField] = txt
             if not self.addMode:
                 self.note.flush()