diff --git a/reference/strings/functions/stripslashes.xml b/reference/strings/functions/stripslashes.xml
index 7b5bcf89d7..58550b4f58 100644
--- a/reference/strings/functions/stripslashes.xml
+++ b/reference/strings/functions/stripslashes.xml
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
-<!-- $Revision: 1.5 $ -->
+<!-- $Revision: 1.6 $ -->
 <!-- splitted from ./en/functions/strings.xml, last change in rev 1.2 -->
   <refentry id="function.stripslashes">
    <refnamediv>
@@ -20,6 +20,13 @@
      Double backslashes (<literal>\\</literal>) are made into a single
      backslash (<literal>\</literal>). 
     </para>
+    <note>
+     <para>
+      If <link linkend="ini.magic-quotes-sybase">magic_quotes_sybase</link> is
+      on, no backslashes are stripped off but two apostrophes are replaced by
+      one instead.
+     </para>
+    </note>
     <para>
      An example use of <function>stripslashes</function> is when the PHP
      directive <link linkend="ini.magic-quotes-gpc">magic_quotes_gpc</link>