diff --git a/scrapy/contrib/ibl/extractors.py b/scrapy/contrib/ibl/extractors.py
index 41bd4d437..6e2f2c266 100644
--- a/scrapy/contrib/ibl/extractors.py
+++ b/scrapy/contrib/ibl/extractors.py
@@ -163,7 +163,7 @@ def safehtml(region, allowed_tags=_TAGS_TO_KEEP, replace_tags=_TAGS_TO_REPLACE):
 def _process_markup(region, textf, tagf):
     fragments = getattr(region, 'parsed_fragments', None)
     if fragments is None:
-        textf(region)
+        yield textf(region)
         return
     fiter = iter(fragments)
     for fragment in fiter:
diff --git a/scrapy/tests/test_contrib_ibl/test_extraction.py b/scrapy/tests/test_contrib_ibl/test_extraction.py
index 3a7bdd393..7b82f7b33 100644
--- a/scrapy/tests/test_contrib_ibl/test_extraction.py
+++ b/scrapy/tests/test_contrib_ibl/test_extraction.py
@@ -249,12 +249,12 @@ SL342
 Nice product for ladies
 <br/><ins data-scrapy-annotate="{&quot;variant&quot;: 0, &quot;generated&quot;: true,
      &quot;annotations&quot;: {&quot;content&quot;: &quot;price&quot;}}">
-&pounds;85.00
+&pound;85.00
 </ins>
 </p>
 <ins data-scrapy-annotate="{&quot;variant&quot;: 0, &quot;generated&quot;: true,
      &quot;annotations&quot;: {&quot;content&quot;: &quot;price_before_discount&quot;}}">
-&pounds;100.00
+&pound;100.00
 </ins>
 </body></html>
 """
@@ -266,9 +266,9 @@ SL342
 <br/>
 Nice product for ladies
 <br/>
-&pounds;85.00
+&pound;85.00
 </p>
-&pounds;100.00
+&pound;100.00
 </body></html>
 """
 
@@ -812,9 +812,9 @@ TEST_DATA = [
     'special_partial_annotation', [ANNOTATED_PAGE11], EXTRACT_PAGE11, DEFAULT_DESCRIPTOR,
           {
             'name': [u'SL342'],
-            'description': ['\nSL342\n \nNice product for ladies\n \n&pounds;85.00\n'],
-            'price': [u'&pounds;85.00'],
-            'price_before_discount': [u'&pounds;100.00'],
+            'description': ['\nSL342\n \nNice product for ladies\n \n&pound;85.00\n'],
+            'price': [u'\xa385.00'],
+            'price_before_discount': [u'\xa3100.00'],
           }
     ),
     (# with ignore-beneath feature