diff --git a/reference/strings/functions/htmlentities.xml b/reference/strings/functions/htmlentities.xml
index 4c17cc7d31..617b0c48a1 100644
--- a/reference/strings/functions/htmlentities.xml
+++ b/reference/strings/functions/htmlentities.xml
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
-<!-- $Revision: 1.2 $ -->
+<!-- $Revision: 1.3 $ -->
 <!-- splitted from ./en/functions/strings.xml, last change in rev 1.2 -->
   <refentry id="function.htmlentities">
    <refnamediv>
@@ -39,6 +39,25 @@
      third argument which defines character set used in conversion.
      Support for this argument was added in PHP 4.1.0.
     </para>
+    <para>
+     There is no reverse of this function.  However, you can create one on your
+     own.  Here is an example of how to do this.
+    </para>
+    <example>
+     <title>Reverse of <function>htmlentities</function></title>
+     <programlisting role="php">
+<[!CDATA[
+<?php
+function unhtmlentities ($string)
+{
+	$trans_tbl = get_html_translation_table (HTML_ENTITIES);
+	$trans_tbl = array_flib ($trans_tbl);
+	return strtr ($string, $trans_tbl);
+}
+?>
+]]>
+     </programlisting>
+    </example>
     <para>
      See also <function>htmlspecialchars</function> and
      <function>nl2br</function>.