diff --git a/binutils/ChangeLog b/binutils/ChangeLog
index bba6260d83..200acd628a 100644
--- a/binutils/ChangeLog
+++ b/binutils/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+2008-04-30  John Heidemann  <johnh@isi.edu>
+
+	* doc/binutils.texi (strings): Add "unicode" to the documentation
+	of strings in order to make explicit that it supports this
+	feature.
+
 2008-04-30  Alan Modra  <amodra@bigpond.net.au>
 
 	* readelf.c (process_program_headers): Correct section in segment
diff --git a/binutils/doc/binutils.texi b/binutils/doc/binutils.texi
index 926caa8b72..d08c61739c 100644
--- a/binutils/doc/binutils.texi
+++ b/binutils/doc/binutils.texi
@@ -2360,7 +2360,8 @@ Possible values for @var{encoding} are: @samp{s} = single-7-bit-byte
 characters (ASCII, ISO 8859, etc., default), @samp{S} =
 single-8-bit-byte characters, @samp{b} = 16-bit bigendian, @samp{l} =
 16-bit littleendian, @samp{B} = 32-bit bigendian, @samp{L} = 32-bit
-littleendian. Useful for finding wide character strings.
+littleendian.  Useful for finding wide character strings. (@samp{l}
+and @samp{b} apply to, for example, Unicode UTF-16/UCS-2 encodings).
 
 @item -T @var{bfdname}
 @itemx --target=@var{bfdname}