From 95df8d05fdb3312fa7b2f542bcefe57cb4188bd4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ryan Boren <ryan@git.wordpress.org>
Date: Thu, 4 Jun 2009 05:32:58 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Don't pass by reference. Props kamiyeye. fixes #9994

git-svn-id: https://develop.svn.wordpress.org/trunk@11518 602fd350-edb4-49c9-b593-d223f7449a82
---
 wp-includes/formatting.php | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/wp-includes/formatting.php b/wp-includes/formatting.php
index cb324f35d5..26bfc694e0 100644
--- a/wp-includes/formatting.php
+++ b/wp-includes/formatting.php
@@ -187,7 +187,7 @@ function wpautop($pee, $br = 1) {
  * @param string $str The string to be checked
  * @return bool True if $str fits a UTF-8 model, false otherwise.
  */
-function seems_utf8(&$str) {
+function seems_utf8($str) {
 	$length = strlen($str);
 	for ($i=0; $i < $length; $i++) {
 		$c = ord($str[$i]);