diff --git a/apps/gui/skin_engine/skin_tokens.c b/apps/gui/skin_engine/skin_tokens.c
index 29ddad4c5b..1bb5b8e555 100644
--- a/apps/gui/skin_engine/skin_tokens.c
+++ b/apps/gui/skin_engine/skin_tokens.c
@@ -927,7 +927,10 @@ const char *get_token_value(struct gui_wps *gwps,
                 if (utf8_len < ss->start)
                     return NULL;
 
-                start_byte = utf8seek(token_val, ss->start);
+                if (ss->start < 0)
+                    start_byte = utf8seek(token_val, ss->start + utf8_len);
+                else
+                    start_byte = utf8seek(token_val, ss->start);
 
                 if (ss->length < 0 || (ss->start + ss->length) > utf8_len)
                     end_byte = strlen(token_val);
diff --git a/manual/appendix/wps_tags.tex b/manual/appendix/wps_tags.tex
index 4aa9472e74..51f10e9a32 100644
--- a/manual/appendix/wps_tags.tex
+++ b/manual/appendix/wps_tags.tex
@@ -766,7 +766,7 @@ a horizontal progressbar which doesn't fill and draws the image
 \end{tagmap}
     Use this tag to get a substring from another tag.
 \begin{description}
-    \item[start] -- first character to take (0 being the start of the string)
+    \item[start] -- first character to take (0 being the start of the string, negative means from the end of the string)
     \item[length] -- length of the substring to return (- for the rest of the string)
     \item[tag] -- tag to get
     \item[number] -- OPTIONAL. if this is present it will assume the