diff --git a/features/gc.xml b/features/gc.xml
index 4aaa5318a6..77fd8c0b03 100644
--- a/features/gc.xml
+++ b/features/gc.xml
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
-<!-- $Revision: 283795 $ -->
+<!-- $Revision$ -->
  <chapter xml:id="features.gc" xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook">
   <title>Garbage Collection</title>
 
@@ -20,8 +20,8 @@
     and references. Since PHP allows user-land references, as created by the
     &amp; operator, a zval container also has an internal reference counting
     mechanism to optimize memory usage. This second piece of additional
-    information, called "refcount", contains how many variable names—also
-    called symbols—point to this one zval container. All symbols are stored in
+    information, called "refcount", contains how many variable names (also
+    called symbols) point to this one zval container. All symbols are stored in
     a symbol table, of which there is one per scope. There is a scope for the
     main script (i.e., the one requested through the browser), as well as one
     for every function or method.