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@@ -138,8 +138,8 @@ as a hollow box or a thin bar.
Some versions of X, notably XFree86, use Extended Segments to encode
in X selections characters that belong to character sets which are not
-part of the list of standard charsets supported by the ICCCM spec.
-Examples of such non-standard character sets include ISO 8859-14, ISO
+part of the list of approved standard encodings defined by the ICCCM
+spec. Examples of such non-standard encodings include ISO 8859-14, ISO
8859-15, KOI8-R, and BIG5. The new coding system
`compound-text-with-extensions' supports these extensions, and is now
used by default for encoding and decoding X selections. If you don't