diff --git a/HTMLKit/HTMLTokenizer.m b/HTMLKit/HTMLTokenizer.m
index f4739bf..29c238d 100644
--- a/HTMLKit/HTMLTokenizer.m
+++ b/HTMLKit/HTMLTokenizer.m
@@ -282,7 +282,7 @@
 
 	NSString *entityName = nil;
 
-	UTF32Char inputCharacter = [_inputStreamReader currentInputCharacter];
+	UTF32Char inputCharacter = [_inputStreamReader consumeNextInputCharacter];
 	NSArray *names = [HTMLTokenizerEntities entityNames];
 	NSMutableString *name = [NSMutableString stringWithString:StringFromUTF32Char(inputCharacter)];