diff --git a/reference/mbstring/ini.xml b/reference/mbstring/ini.xml
index f93f1877ba..b7c66d573f 100644
--- a/reference/mbstring/ini.xml
+++ b/reference/mbstring/ini.xml
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
-<!-- $Revision: 1.11 $ -->
+<!-- $Revision: 1.12 $ -->
 <section id="mbstring.configuration">
  &reftitle.runtime;
  &extension.runtime;
@@ -131,7 +131,7 @@
  </para>
  <para>
   According to the <ulink url="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/interact/forms.html#adef-accept-charset">HTML 4.01 specification</ulink>,
-  Web browsers is allowed to encode a form being submitted with a character
+  Web browsers are allowed to encode a form being submitted with a character
   encoding different from the one used for the page.
   See <function>mb_http_input</function> to detect character encoding
   used by browsers.