diff --git a/phpBB/includes/search/fulltext_mysql.php b/phpBB/includes/search/fulltext_mysql.php
index e475e012f0..7c67b755e1 100644
--- a/phpBB/includes/search/fulltext_mysql.php
+++ b/phpBB/includes/search/fulltext_mysql.php
@@ -786,6 +786,28 @@ class fulltext_mysql extends search_backend
 		$this->stats['total_posts'] = (int) $db->sql_fetchfield('total_posts');
 		$db->sql_freeresult($result);
 	}
+
+	/**
+	* Display a note, that UTF-8 support is not available with certain versions of PHP
+	*/
+	function acp()
+	{
+		global $user, $config;
+
+
+		$tpl = '
+		<dl>
+			<dt><label>' . $user->lang['FULLTEXT_MYSQL_UNICODE'] . '</label><br /><span>' . $user->lang['FULLTEXT_MYSQL_UNICODE_EXPLAIN'] . '</span></dt>
+			<dd>' . (($this->pcre_properties) ? $user->lang['YES'] : $user->lang['NO']) . ' (PHP ' . PHP_VERSION . ')</dd>
+		</dl>
+		';
+
+		// These are fields required in the config table
+		return array(
+			'tpl'		=> $tpl,
+			'config'	=> array()
+		);
+	}
 }
 
 ?>
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/phpBB/language/en/acp/search.php b/phpBB/language/en/acp/search.php
index b450f4a5e2..59a4dbb43a 100644
--- a/phpBB/language/en/acp/search.php
+++ b/phpBB/language/en/acp/search.php
@@ -52,6 +52,8 @@ $lang = array_merge($lang, array(
 	'FULLTEXT_MYSQL_SUBJECT_CARDINALITY'	=> 'Cardinality of the post_subject fulltext index (estimate of unique values)',
 	'FULLTEXT_MYSQL_TEXT_CARDINALITY'		=> 'Cardinality of the post_text fulltext index (estimate of unique values)',
 	'FULLTEXT_MYSQL_TOTAL_POSTS'			=> 'Total number of indexed posts',
+	'FULLTEXT_MYSQL_UNICODE'				=> 'Support for non-latin UTF-8 characters:',
+	'FULLTEXT_MYSQL_UNICODE_EXPLAIN'		=> 'This search backend requires PCRE unicode character properties, only available in PHP 4.4, 5.1 and above, if you want to search for non-latin characters.',
 
 	'GENERAL_SEARCH_SETTINGS'				=> 'General search settings',
 	'GO_TO_SEARCH_INDEX'					=> 'Go to search index page',