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diff --git a/man7/charsets.7 b/man7/charsets.7 index 8fc04bc8ca..7db4e73c9d 100644 --- a/man7/charsets.7 +++ b/man7/charsets.7 @@ -305,12 +305,14 @@ While there are algorithmic conversions from some character sets carrying around conversion tables, which can be quite large for 16-bit codes. .PP -Note that UTF-8 is self-synchronizing: 10xxxxxx is a tail, any other -byte is the head of a code. -Note that the only way ASCII bytes occur -in a UTF-8 stream, is as themselves. -In particular, there are no -embedded NULs (\[aq]\e0\[aq]) or \[aq]/\[aq]s that form part of some larger code. +Note that UTF-8 is self-synchronizing: +10xxxxxx is a tail, +any other byte is the head of a code. +Note that the only way ASCII bytes occur in a UTF-8 stream, +is as themselves. +In particular, +there are no embedded NULs (\[aq]\e0\[aq]) or \[aq]/\[aq]s +that form part of some larger code. .PP Since ASCII, and, in particular, NUL and \[aq]/\[aq], are unchanged, the kernel does not notice that UTF-8 is being used. |