lib/PublicInbox/Hval.pm | 1 -
 lib/PublicInbox/View.pm | 5 +----
 public-inbox.cgi        | 2 +-

diff --git a/lib/PublicInbox/Hval.pm b/lib/PublicInbox/Hval.pm
index 26a2d0bb018f631dbd117af8da36bbe9d86ac7e8..47b41a5844c875ddff9eeabf271485025a157f68 100644
--- a/lib/PublicInbox/Hval.pm
+++ b/lib/PublicInbox/Hval.pm
@@ -12,7 +12,6 @@ use URI::Escape qw(uri_escape);
 
 my $enc_utf8 = find_encoding('utf8');
 my $enc_ascii = find_encoding('us-ascii');
-my $enc_mime = find_encoding('MIME-Header');
 
 sub new {
 	my ($class, $raw) = @_;
diff --git a/lib/PublicInbox/View.pm b/lib/PublicInbox/View.pm
index ecd49156aeb2651561b43cbec18000610ef142cb..811e4703e5ee5e1588739cab9f55d6bffb504683 100644
--- a/lib/PublicInbox/View.pm
+++ b/lib/PublicInbox/View.pm
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ use Encode::MIME::Header;
 use Email::MIME::ContentType qw/parse_content_type/;
 use constant MAX_INLINE_QUOTED => 5;
 use constant MAX_TRUNC_LEN => 72;
+*ascii_html = *PublicInbox::Hval::ascii_html;
 
 my $enc_utf8 = find_encoding('utf8');
 my $enc_ascii = find_encoding('us-ascii');
@@ -134,10 +135,6 @@ 			$cur;
 		}
 	!emg;
 	$s;
-}
-
-sub ascii_html {
-	$enc_ascii->encode(escapeHTML($_[0]), Encode::HTMLCREF);
 }
 
 sub headers_to_html_header {
diff --git a/public-inbox.cgi b/public-inbox.cgi
index fc48f2f4416a42c7345ee5c2e4db0cd9f51b57bb..9bc3dc2b5477e80b49dce18abd5892c4d8903e7d 100755
--- a/public-inbox.cgi
+++ b/public-inbox.cgi
@@ -168,7 +168,7 @@ 	my $x = mid2blob($ctx);
 	return r404() unless $x;
 
 	require PublicInbox::View;
-	my $mid_href = PublicInbox::View::ascii_html(uri_escape($ctx->{mid}));
+	my $mid_href = PublicInbox::Hval::ascii_html(uri_escape($ctx->{mid}));
 	my $pfx = "../f/$mid_href.html";
 	require Email::MIME;
 	[ "200 OK", {'Content-Type' => 'text/html'},