diff --git a/wp-includes/formatting.php b/wp-includes/formatting.php
index 82a1b9bdf7..311cd5f5eb 100644
--- a/wp-includes/formatting.php
+++ b/wp-includes/formatting.php
@@ -1875,6 +1875,10 @@ function wp_trim_excerpt($text) {
  * @return string Text with converted entities.
  */
 function ent2ncr($text) {
+
+	if( null !== $filtered = apply_filters( 'pre_ent2ncr', null, $text ) )
+		return $filtered;
+
 	$to_ncr = array(
 		'"' => '"',
 		'&' => '&',