diff --git a/reference/mysqli/mysqli_result/fetch-fields.xml b/reference/mysqli/mysqli_result/fetch-fields.xml
index 5de91e1ee1..3ab0270dcf 100644
--- a/reference/mysqli/mysqli_result/fetch-fields.xml
+++ b/reference/mysqli/mysqli_result/fetch-fields.xml
@@ -79,8 +79,8 @@
       <entry>
        The width of the field, in bytes, as specified in the table definition. Note that 
        this number (bytes) might differ from your table definition value (characters), depending on
-       the character set you use. For example, the character set utf8 has 3 bytes per character, 
-       so varchar(10) will return a length of 30 for utf8 (10*3), but return 10 for latin1 (10*1).
+       the character set you use. For example, the character set utf8 has up to 3 bytes per character, 
+       so varchar(10) can return a length of up to 30 for utf8 (10*3), but returns 10 for latin1 (10*1).
       </entry>
      </row>
      <row>