diff --git a/xorriso/xorriso.1 b/xorriso/xorriso.1
index c10a42ee..2d74dce8 100644
--- a/xorriso/xorriso.1
+++ b/xorriso/xorriso.1
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 .\" First parameter, NAME, should be all caps
 .\" Second parameter, SECTION, should be 1-8, maybe w/ subsection
 .\" other parameters are allowed: see man(7), man(1)
-.TH XORRISO 1 "Mar 20, 2009"
+.TH XORRISO 1 "Mar 21, 2009"
 .\" Please adjust this date whenever revising the manpage.
 .\"
 .\" Some roff macros, for reference:
@@ -658,14 +658,15 @@ When loading the written image after -commit the setting of -out_charset
 will be copied to -in_charset.
 .TP
 \fB\-auto_charset\fR "on"|"off"
-Enable or disable recording of the output character set name in an xattr
-attribute of the image root directory. If enabled then use an eventual
-recorded character set name as input character set when reading an image.
+Enable or disable recording and interpretation of the output character
+set name in an xattr attribute of the image root directory. If enabled then
+an eventual recorded character set name gets used as input character set
+when reading an image.
 .br
 Note that the default output charset is the local character set of the
-terminal where xorriso runs. Before attributing this one to the produced
-ISO image, it is necessary to check whether the terminal properly displays
-all intended filenames. Check especially the exotic national characters.
+terminal where xorriso runs. Before attributing this local character set
+to the produced ISO image, check whether the terminal properly displays
+all intended filenames, especially exotic national characters.
 .TP
 \fB\-acl\fR "on"|"off"
 Enable or disable processing of ACLs.
@@ -1840,7 +1841,7 @@ missing.
 .PP
 File names are strings of non-zero bytes with 8 bit each. Unfortunately
 the same byte string may appear as different peculiar national characters
-on differently nationalized computers.
+on differently nationalized terminals.
 The meanings of byte codes are defined in \fBcharacter sets\fR which have
 names. Shell command iconv -l lists them. 
 .br
@@ -1861,6 +1862,23 @@ local character set. xorriso can inquire the same info as shell command
 "locale" with argument "charmap". This may be influenced by environment
 variables LC_ALL, LC_CTYPE, or LANG and should match the expectations of
 the terminal.
+.br
+The default output charset is the local character set of the terminal where
+xorriso runs. So by default no conversion happens between local filesystem
+names and emerging names in the image. The situation stays ambigous and the
+reader has to riddle what character set was used.
+.br
+By option -auto_charset it is possible to attribute the output charset name
+to the image. This makes the situation unambigous. But if your terminal
+character set does not match the character set of the local file names,
+then this attribute can become plainly wrong and cause problems at read time.
+To prevent this it is necessary to check whether the terminal properly
+displays all intended filenames. Check especially the exotic national
+characters.
+.br
+To enforce recording of a particular character set name without any conversion
+at image generation time, set -charset and -local_charset to the desired name,
+and enable -backslash_codes to avoid evil character display on your terminal.
 .TP
 \fB\-charset\fR character_set_name
 Set the character set from which to convert file names when loading an