diff --git a/reference/filesystem/functions/fgetcsv.xml b/reference/filesystem/functions/fgetcsv.xml
index ceeedd1cf8..bfaa081f4d 100644
--- a/reference/filesystem/functions/fgetcsv.xml
+++ b/reference/filesystem/functions/fgetcsv.xml
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
-<!-- $Revision: 1.16 $ -->
+<!-- $Revision: 1.17 $ -->
 <!-- splitted from ./en/functions/filesystem.xml, last change in rev 1.2 -->
   <refentry id="function.fgetcsv">
    <refnamediv>
@@ -97,6 +97,13 @@ fclose($handle);
     <para>
      <function>fgetcsv</function> has been binary safe since PHP 4.3.5
     </para>
+    <note>
+     <simpara>
+      Locale setting is taken into account by this function. If
+      <varname>LANG</varname> is e.g. <literal>en_US.UTF-8</literal>, files in
+      one-byte encoding are read wrong by this function.
+     </simpara>
+    </note>
     &note.line-endings;
     <para>
      See also <function>explode</function>, <function>file</function>,