diff --git a/scrapy/trunk/scrapy/utils/misc.py b/scrapy/trunk/scrapy/utils/misc.py
index 0cd87568f..6f27075e2 100644
--- a/scrapy/trunk/scrapy/utils/misc.py
+++ b/scrapy/trunk/scrapy/utils/misc.py
@@ -2,7 +2,6 @@
 Auxiliary functions which doesn't fit anywhere else
 """
 import re
-import htmlentitydefs
 
 from twisted.internet import defer, reactor
 from twisted.python import failure
@@ -156,23 +155,6 @@ def load_class(class_path):
 
     return cls
 
-def convert_entity(m, keep_reserved=False):
-    """
-    Convert a HTML entity into unicode string
-    """
-    if m.group(1)=='#':
-        try:
-            return unichr(int(m.group(2)))
-        except ValueError:
-            return '&#%s;' % m.group(2)
-    try:
-        if not (keep_reserved and m.group(2) in ['lt', 'amp']):
-            return unichr(htmlentitydefs.name2codepoint[m.group(2)])
-        else:
-            return '&%s;' % m.group(2)
-    except KeyError:
-        return '&%s;' % m.group(2)
-
 def extract_regex(regex, text, encoding):
     """Extract a list of unicode strings from the given text/encoding using the following policies: