diff --git a/reference/strings/functions/quotemeta.xml b/reference/strings/functions/quotemeta.xml
index 73eaa1af0a..3b92ede6b8 100644
--- a/reference/strings/functions/quotemeta.xml
+++ b/reference/strings/functions/quotemeta.xml
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
-<!-- $Revision: 1.3 $ -->
+<!-- $Revision: 1.4 $ -->
 <!-- splitted from ./en/functions/strings.xml, last change in rev 1.139 -->
   <refentry id="function.quotemeta">
    <refnamediv>
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@
     <para>
      Returns a version of str with a backslash character
      (<literal>\</literal>) before every character that is among
-     these: <screen>. \\ + * ? [ ^ ] ( $ )</screen>
+     these: <screen>. \ + * ? [ ^ ] ( $ )</screen>
     </para>
 
     &note.bin-safe;