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diff --git a/doc/dev/system-file-format.texi b/doc/dev/system-file-format.texi
index b0b69dd4ca..6276b6de85 100644
--- a/doc/dev/system-file-format.texi
+++ b/doc/dev/system-file-format.texi
@@ -676,7 +676,8 @@ following:
 
 @itemize @bullet
 @item
-The set's name (an identifier that begins with @samp{$}).
+The set's name (an identifier that begins with @samp{$}), in mixed
+upper and lower case.
 
 @item
 An equals sign (@samp{=}).
@@ -717,8 +718,8 @@ written if LABELSOURCE=VARLABEL was specified.
 A space.
 
 @item
-The names of the variables in the set, each separated from the
-previous by a single space.
+The short names of the variables in the set, converted to lowercase,
+each separated from the previous by a single space.
 
 @item
 A line feed (byte 0x0a).
@@ -987,8 +988,11 @@ The size of each element in the @code{encoding} member. Always set to 1.
 The total number of bytes in @code{encoding}.
 
 @item char encoding[];
-The name of the character encoding.  Normally this will be an official IANA characterset name or alias.
+The name of the character encoding.  Normally this will be an official
+IANA character set name or alias.
 See @url{http://www.iana.org/assignments/character-sets}.
+Character set names are not case-sensitive, but SPSS appears to write
+them in all-uppercase.
 @end table
 
 This record is not present in files generated by older software.  See
@@ -1133,8 +1137,8 @@ element.
 In record type 18, this field contains a sequence of one or more
 variable attribute sets.  If more than one variable attribute set is
 present, each one after the first is delimited from the previous by
-@code{/}.  Each variable attribute set consists of a (potentially
-long) variable name,
+@code{/}.  Each variable attribute set consists of a long
+variable name,
 followed by @code{:}, followed by an attribute set with the same
 syntax as on record type 17.