diff --git a/reference/strings/functions/setlocale.xml b/reference/strings/functions/setlocale.xml
index f622242aaf..6591553cbb 100644
--- a/reference/strings/functions/setlocale.xml
+++ b/reference/strings/functions/setlocale.xml
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
-<!-- $Revision: 1.10 $ -->
+<!-- $Revision: 1.11 $ -->
 <!-- splitted from ./en/functions/strings.xml, last change in rev 1.2 -->
   <refentry id="function.setlocale">
    <refnamediv>
@@ -66,8 +66,8 @@
      categories, or from "LANG".
     </para>
     <para>
-     If <parameter>locale</parameter> is zero or <literal>"0"</literal>, the locale setting
-     is not affected, only the current setting is returned.
+     If <parameter>locale</parameter> is &null; or <literal>"0"</literal>,
+     the locale setting is not affected, only the current setting is returned.
     </para>
     <para>
      If <parameter>locale</parameter> is an array or followed by additional
@@ -83,7 +83,7 @@
     </note>
     <para>
      Setlocale returns the new current locale, or &false; if the locale
-     functionality is not implemented in the platform, the specified
+     functionality is not implemented on your platform, the specified
      locale does not exist or the category name is invalid.
      An invalid category name also causes a warning message. Category/locale
      names can be found in <ulink url="&url.rfc;1766">RFC 1766</ulink>
@@ -96,6 +96,19 @@
       what the system setlocale function returns.
      </para>
     </note>
+    <tip>
+     <para>
+      Windows users will find usefull information about
+      <parameter>locale</parameter> strings at Microsoft's msdn website.
+      Supported language strings can be found
+      <ulink url="&url.setlocale.lang.win32;">here</ulink> and supported
+      country/region strings <ulink url="&url.setlocale.country.win32;">
+      here</ulink>. Windows systems support the three letter codes for
+      country/region specified by <literal>ISO 3166-Alpha-3</literal>,which
+      can be found at this <ulink url="&url.iso-3166-3;">Unicode website
+      </ulink>. 
+     </para>
+    </tip>
     <para>
      <example>
       <title><function>setlocale</function> Examples</title>
@@ -112,6 +125,26 @@ echo strftime ("%A %e %B %Y", mktime (0, 0, 0, 12, 22, 1978));
 $loc_de = setlocale (LC_ALL, 'de_DE@euro', 'de_DE', 'de', 'ge');
 echo "Preferred locale for german on this system is '$loc_de'";
 ?>
+]]>
+      </programlisting>
+     </example>
+    </para>
+    <para>
+     <example>
+      <title><function>setlocale</function> Examples for Windows</title>
+      <programlisting role="php">
+<![CDATA[
+<?php
+/* Set locale to Dutch */
+setlocale (LC_ALL, 'nld_nld');
+
+/* Output: vrijdag 22 december 1978 */
+echo strftime ("%A %B %Y", mktime (0, 0, 0, 12, 22, 1978));
+
+/* try different possible locale names for german as of PHP 4.3.0 */
+$loc_de = setlocale (LC_ALL, 'de_DE@euro', 'de_DE', 'deu_deu');
+echo "Preferred locale for german on this system is '$loc_de'";
+?>
 ]]>
       </programlisting>
      </example>