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diff --git a/erts/doc/src/escript.xml b/erts/doc/src/escript.xml
index 66e904f64f..9e2a87dde6 100644
--- a/erts/doc/src/escript.xml
+++ b/erts/doc/src/escript.xml
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
<comref>
<header>
<copyright>
- <year>2007</year><year>2011</year>
+ <year>2007</year><year>2013</year>
<holder>Ericsson AB. All Rights Reserved.</holder>
</copyright>
<legalnotice>
@@ -85,6 +85,11 @@ $ <input>escript factorial 5</input> </pre>
enter the major mode for editing Erlang source files. If the
directive is present it must be located on the second
line.</p>
+
+ <p>If there is a comment selecting the <seealso
+ marker="stdlib:epp#encoding">encoding</seealso> it can be
+ located on the second line.</p>
+
<p>On the third line (or second line depending on the presence
of the Emacs directive), it is possible to give arguments to
the emulator, such as </p>
@@ -133,7 +138,9 @@ halt(1).</pre>
<pre>
-include_lib("kernel/include/file.hrl").</pre>
<p>to include the record definitions for the records used by the
- <c>file:read_link_info/1</c> function.</p>
+ <c>file:read_link_info/1</c> function. You can also select
+ encoding here, but if there is a valid encoding comment on
+ the second line it takes precedence.</p>
<p>The script will be checked for syntactic and semantic
correctness before being run. If there are warnings (such as