Comment.

2 files changed, 5 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/lisp/international/mule-cmds.el b/lisp/international/mule-cmds.el
index dc7c18361af..8f7264867d8 100644
--- a/lisp/international/mule-cmds.el
+++ b/lisp/international/mule-cmds.el
@@ -1905,6 +1905,8 @@ of `buffer-file-coding-system' set by this function."
     ; dz Bhutani
     ("el" . "Greek")
     ;; Users who specify "en" explicitly typically want Latin-1, not ASCII.
+    ;; That's actually what the GNU locales define, modulo things like
+    ;; en_IN -- fx.
     ("en" . "Latin-1") ; English
     ("eo" . "Latin-3") ; Esperanto
     ("es" . "Spanish")
diff --git a/lisp/international/mule-conf.el b/lisp/international/mule-conf.el
index d6ad28783f7..4b11cc67f2c 100644
--- a/lisp/international/mule-conf.el
+++ b/lisp/international/mule-conf.el
@@ -414,7 +414,7 @@ is treated as a character."
  'compound-text 2 ?x
  "Compound text based generic encoding for decoding unknown messages.
 
-This coding system does not support ICCCM Extended Segments."
+This coding system does not support extended segments."
  '((ascii t) (latin-iso8859-1 katakana-jisx0201 t) t t
    nil ascii-eol ascii-cntl nil locking-shift single-shift nil nil nil
    init-bol nil nil)
@@ -442,7 +442,7 @@ Like `compound-text', but does not produce escape sequences for compositions."
 
 (make-coding-system
  'compound-text-with-extensions 5 ?x
- "Compound text encoding with ICCCM Extended Segment extensions.
+ "Compound text encoding with extended segments.
 
 This coding system should be used only for X selections.  It is inappropriate
 for decoding and encoding files, process I/O, etc."
@@ -457,7 +457,7 @@ for decoding and encoding files, process I/O, etc."
 
 (make-coding-system
  'iso-safe 2 ?-
- "Convert all characters but ASCII to `?'."
+ "Encode ASCII asis and encode non-ASCII characters to `?'."
  '(ascii nil nil nil
    nil ascii-eol ascii-cntl nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil t)
  '((safe-charsets ascii)))