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diff --git a/doc/HACKING b/doc/HACKING
index 4ae7e6ed2..f30928432 100644
--- a/doc/HACKING
+++ b/doc/HACKING
@@ -39,6 +39,8 @@ RFCs
1423 Privacy Enhancement for Internet Electronic Mail:
Part III: Algorithms, Modes, and Identifiers.
+1489 Registration of a Cyrillic Character Set.
+
1750 Randomness Recommendations for Security.
1991 PGP Message Exchange Formats.
@@ -47,6 +49,8 @@ RFCs
2144 The CAST-128 Encryption Algorithm.
+2279 UTF-8, a transformation format of ISO 10646.
+
diff --git a/doc/gpg.1pod b/doc/gpg.1pod
index 56d802b08..aacefcbb3 100644
--- a/doc/gpg.1pod
+++ b/doc/gpg.1pod
@@ -293,6 +293,13 @@ B<--homedir> I<dir>
not make sense to use this in a options file. This
also overrides the environment variable C<GNUPGHOME>.
+B<--charset> I<name>
+ Set the name of the native character set. This is used
+ to convert some strings to proper UTF-8 encoding.
+ Valid values for I<name> are:
+ B<iso-8859-1> This is the default.
+ B<koi8-r> The usual Russian set (rfc1489).
+
B<--options> I<file>
Read options from I<file> and do not try to read
them from the default options file in the homedir