diff --git a/reference/strings/functions/html-entity-decode.xml b/reference/strings/functions/html-entity-decode.xml
index 1f789e83d9..d8e2e62528 100644
--- a/reference/strings/functions/html-entity-decode.xml
+++ b/reference/strings/functions/html-entity-decode.xml
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
-<!-- $Revision: 1.11 $ -->
+<!-- $Revision: 1.12 $ -->
 <!-- splitted from ./en/functions/strings.xml, last change in rev 1.2 -->
   <refentry id="function.html-entity-decode">
    <refnamediv>
@@ -85,7 +85,7 @@ function unhtmlentities($string)
 {
     // replace numeric entities
     $string = preg_replace('~&#x([0-9a-f]+);~ei', 'chr(hexdec("\\1"))', $string);
-    $string = preg_replace('~&#([0-9]+);~e', 'chr(\\1)', $string);
+    $string = preg_replace('~&#([0-9]+);~e', 'chr("\\1")', $string);
     // replace literal entities
     $trans_tbl = get_html_translation_table(HTML_ENTITIES);
     $trans_tbl = array_flip($trans_tbl);