diff --git a/Documentation/config/gui.txt b/Documentation/config/gui.txt
index d30831a130..0c087fd8c9 100644
--- a/Documentation/config/gui.txt
+++ b/Documentation/config/gui.txt
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ gui.displayUntracked::
 	in the file list. The default is "true".
 
 gui.encoding::
-	Specifies the default encoding to use for displaying of
+	Specifies the default character encoding to use for displaying of
 	file contents in linkgit:git-gui[1] and linkgit:gitk[1].
 	It can be overridden by setting the 'encoding' attribute
 	for relevant files (see linkgit:gitattributes[5]).
diff --git a/Documentation/pretty-options.txt b/Documentation/pretty-options.txt
index 42b227bc40..b3af850608 100644
--- a/Documentation/pretty-options.txt
+++ b/Documentation/pretty-options.txt
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ people using 80-column terminals.
 	used together.
 
 --encoding=<encoding>::
-	The commit objects record the encoding used for the log message
+	Commit objects record the character encoding used for the log message
 	in their encoding header; this option can be used to tell the
 	command to re-code the commit log message in the encoding
 	preferred by the user.  For non plumbing commands this