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diff --git a/doc/encoding.rdoc b/doc/encoding.rdoc index 490066b5df..fcbbf3afa5 100644 --- a/doc/encoding.rdoc +++ b/doc/encoding.rdoc @@ -274,8 +274,14 @@ followed by a colon, space and the Encoding name or alias: === Transcoding -_Transcoding_ is the process of revising the content of a string or stream -by changing its encoding. +_Transcoding_ is the process of changing a sequence of characters +from one encoding to another. + +As far as possible, the characters remain the same, +but the bytes that represent them may change. + +The handling for characters that cannot be represented in the destination encoding +may be specified by @Encoding+Options. ==== Transcoding a \String |