Admin chat box encoding fix?

Hello,

I had a character issue with this plugin, basically apostrophes were showing up in the admin chat box as HTML entity numbers.

I wrote about my fix, not sure if it is 100% safe, your opinions would be great!

http://blog.kloud.pt/lively-chat-and-the-plain-text-escape/

Cheers,
H.
CTO
kloud.pt