diff --git a/language/control-structures/declare.xml b/language/control-structures/declare.xml
index 89e5b7964b..f55b2c4595 100644
--- a/language/control-structures/declare.xml
+++ b/language/control-structures/declare.xml
@@ -177,12 +177,16 @@ declare(encoding='ISO-8859-1');
   <para>
    The encoding declare value is ignored in PHP 5.3 unless php is compiled with
    <literal>--enable-zend-multibyte</literal>.
+  </para>
+  <para>
+   Note that PHP does not expose whether <literal>--enable-zend-multibyte</literal> was 
+   used to compile PHP other than by <function>phpinfo</function>.
+  </para>
    <!-- FIXME PHP_6 
    In PHP 6.0, the <literal>encoding</literal>
    directive will be used to inform the scanner what encoding the file is created in.  Legal
    values are encoding names such as <literal>UTF-8</literal>.
    -->
-  </para>
  </sect2>
 </sect1>