From 1312852e1486156f85a5e4c9ac0fafd3a8035c2e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Kalle Sommer Nielsen <kalle@php.net>
Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2010 02:05:08 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Fixed bug #53113 (number_format(): wrong usage of term
 "character" in multi-byte context)

git-svn-id: https://svn.php.net/repository/phpdoc/en/trunk@304600 c90b9560-bf6c-de11-be94-00142212c4b1
---
 reference/strings/functions/number-format.xml | 8 +++++++-
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/reference/strings/functions/number-format.xml b/reference/strings/functions/number-format.xml
index 4565e669cd..783c03f58c 100644
--- a/reference/strings/functions/number-format.xml
+++ b/reference/strings/functions/number-format.xml
@@ -85,12 +85,18 @@
        Sets the thousands separator.
       </para>
       <para>
-       Only the first character of <parameter>thousands_sep</parameter>
+       Only the first byte of <parameter>thousands_sep</parameter>
        is used. For example, if you use <literal>&amp;amp;</literal> as
        <parameter>thousands_sep</parameter> on the number
        <literal>1000</literal>, <function>number_format</function> will
        return <literal>1&amp;000</literal>.
       </para>
+      <para>
+       As noted above, this function only takes the first byte for the 
+       separator. This means that multibyte characters will 
+       <emphasis>NOT</emphasis> work, resulting in a broken multibyte 
+       sequence.
+      </para>
      </listitem>
     </varlistentry>
    </variablelist>