diff --git a/reference/image/functions/imagettftext.xml b/reference/image/functions/imagettftext.xml
index 0514a7844f..3ba0c1946a 100644
--- a/reference/image/functions/imagettftext.xml
+++ b/reference/image/functions/imagettftext.xml
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
-<!-- $Revision: 1.18 $ -->
+<!-- $Revision: 1.19 $ -->
 <!-- splitted from ./en/functions/image.xml, last change in rev 1.2 -->
   <refentry id="function.imagettftext">
    <refnamediv>
@@ -127,7 +127,12 @@ $font = 'SomeFont';
         <simpara>
          May include decimal numeric character references (of the form:
          &amp;#8364;) to access characters in a font beyond position 127.
-         Strings in UTF-8 encoding can be passed directly.
+         The hexadecimal format (like &amp;#xA9;) is supported as of PHP 5.2.0. 
+         Strings in UTF-8 encoding can be passed directly. 
+        </simpara>
+        <simpara>
+         Named entities, such as &amp;copy;, are not supported. Consider using <function>html_entity_decode</function> 
+         to decode these named entities into UTF-8 strings (html_entity_decode() supports this as of PHP 5.0.0).
         </simpara>
         <simpara>
          If a character is used in the string which is not supported by the