diff --git a/htmlentities/__init__.py b/htmlentities/__init__.py
index 714a203..73f761f 100644
--- a/htmlentities/__init__.py
+++ b/htmlentities/__init__.py
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ def encode(source):
 
 
 def decode(source):
-    for entitie in re.findall('&(?:[a-z][a-z0-9]+);', source):
+    for entitie in re.findall('&(?:[a-z][a-z0-9]+);', source, re.I):
         entitie = entitie.replace('&', '')
         entitie = entitie.replace(';', '')
         source = source.replace('&%s;' % entitie, unichr(name2codepoint[entitie]))
diff --git a/tests/test_decoding.py b/tests/test_decoding.py
index 45bfd28..eade01e 100644
--- a/tests/test_decoding.py
+++ b/tests/test_decoding.py
@@ -15,3 +15,13 @@ def test_should_decode_basic_entities(self):
     def test_should_decode_utf8_accents(self):
         self.assertEqual(u'é', htmlentities.decode('é'))
         self.assertEqual(u'ê', htmlentities.decode('ê'))
+
+    def test_decode_complex_unicode_text(self):
+        """Validates the encoding and decoding of sample text"""
+        text = u"Übergroße Äpfel mit Würmern"
+
+        # result string: Übergroße Äpfel mit Würmern
+
+        result = htmlentities.decode(htmlentities.encode(text))
+
+        self.assertEquals(result, text)