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@@ -664,8 +664,9 @@ However, there are some differences in encoding names recognized by
Emacs and encoding names defined by IANA, the latter being essentially a
subset of the former. For instance, @code{latin-1} is a valid encoding
name for Emacs, but it's not according to the IANA standard, which Guile
-follows; instead, you should use @code{latin1}, which is both understood
-by Emacs and dubbed by IANA.
+follows; instead, you should use @code{iso-8859-1}, which is both
+understood by Emacs and dubbed by IANA (IANA writes it uppercase but
+Emacs wants it lowercase and Guile is case insensitive.)
For source code, only a subset of all possible character encodings can
be interpreted by the built-in source code reader. Only those