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diff --git a/doc/dev/i18n.texi b/doc/dev/i18n.texi
index 97077d344e..ab80b2f773 100644
--- a/doc/dev/i18n.texi
+++ b/doc/dev/i18n.texi
@@ -1,3 +1,13 @@
+@c PSPP - a program for statistical analysis.
+@c Copyright (C) 2019 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+@c Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document
+@c under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.3
+@c or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation;
+@c with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts.
+@c A copy of the license is included in the section entitled "GNU
+@c Free Documentation License".
+@c
+
 @node Internationalisation
 @chapter Internationalisation
 
@@ -27,7 +37,7 @@ It's rarely, if ever, necessary to interrogate the system to find out
 the values of the 3 locales.
 However it's important to be aware of the source (destination) locale
 when reading (writing) string data.
-When transfering data between a source and a destination, the appropriate
+When transferring data between a source and a destination, the appropriate
 recoding must be performed.
 
 
@@ -47,13 +57,12 @@ report generated by pspp.  Non-data related strings (Eg: ``Page number'',
 @subsection The data locale
 This locale is the one associated with the data being analysed with pspp.
 The only important aspect of this locale is the character encoding.
-@footnote {It might also be desirable for the LC_COLLATE category to be used for the purposes of sorting data.}
+@footnote{It might also be desirable for the LC_COLLATE category to be used for the purposes of sorting data.}
 The dictionary pertaining to the data contains a field denoting the encoding.
 Any string data stored in a @union{value} will be encoded in the
 dictionary's character set.
 
 
-
 @section System files
 @file{*.sav} files contain a field which is supposed to identify the encoding
 of the data they contain (@pxref{Machine Integer Info Record}).  
@@ -103,25 +112,20 @@ It is the caller's responsibility to free the returned string when no
 longer required.
 @end deftypefun
 
+In order to minimise the number of conversions required, and to simplify 
+design, PSPP attempts to store all internal strings in UTF8 encoding.
+Thus, when reading system and portable files (or any other data source),
+the following items are immediately converted to UTF8 encoding:
+@itemize
+@item Variable names
+@item Variable labels
+@item Value labels
+@end itemize
+Conversely, when writing system files, these are converted back to the
+encoding of that system file.
 
-For example, in order to display a string variable's value in a label widget in the psppire gui one would use code similar to
-@example
-
-struct variable *var = /* assigned from somewhere */
-struct case c = /* from somewhere else */
-
-const union value *val = case_data (&c, var);
-
-char *utf8string = recode_string (UTF8, dict_get_encoding (dict), val->s,
-      var_get_width (var));
-
-GtkWidget *entry = gtk_entry_new();
-gtk_entry_set_text (entry, utf8string);
-gtk_widget_show (entry);
-
-free (utf8string);
-
-@end example
+String data stored in union values are left in their original encoding.
+These will be converted by the data_in/data_out functions.