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                 <para>Entries in the journal resemble an environment
                 block in their syntax, however with fields that can
                 include binary data. Primarily, fields are formatted
                 <para>Entries in the journal resemble an environment
                 block in their syntax, however with fields that can
                 include binary data. Primarily, fields are formatted
-                ASCII strings, and binary formatting is used only
-                where formatting as ASCII makes little sense. New
-                fields may be freely defined by applications, but a
-                few fields have special meaning. All fields with
-                special meaning are optional.</para>
+                UTF-8 text strings, and binary formatting is used only
+                where formatting as UTF-8 text strings makes little
+                sense. New fields may freely be defined by
+                applications, but a few fields have special
+                meaning. All fields with special meanings are
+                optional.</para>
         </refsect1>
 
         <refsect1>
         </refsect1>
 
         <refsect1>
                                         message string for this
                                         entry. This is supposed to be
                                         the primary text shown to the
                                         message string for this
                                         entry. This is supposed to be
                                         the primary text shown to the
-                                        user. It is not translated,
-                                        and is not supposed to be
-                                        parsed for meta data.</para>
+                                        user. It is usually not
+                                        translated (but might be in
+                                        some cases), and is not
+                                        supposed to be parsed for meta
+                                        data.</para>
                                 </listitem>
                         </varlistentry>
 
                                 </listitem>
                         </varlistentry>
 
                                         journal protocol, for the
                                         those read from a services'
                                         standard output or error
                                         journal protocol, for the
                                         those read from a services'
                                         standard output or error
-                                        output, resp. for those read
-                                        from the kernel.
+                                        output, and for those read
+                                        from the kernel, resp.
                                         </para>
                                 </listitem>
                         </varlistentry>
                                         </para>
                                 </listitem>
                         </varlistentry>
                   <para>
                           <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
                           <citerefentry><refentrytitle>journalctl</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
                   <para>
                           <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
                           <citerefentry><refentrytitle>journalctl</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
-                          <citerefentry><refentrytitle>journald.conf</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>
+                          <citerefentry><refentrytitle>journald.conf</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
+                          <citerefentry><refentrytitle>sd-journal</refentrytitle><manvolnum>7</manvolnum></citerefentry>
                   </para>
         </refsect1>
 
                   </para>
         </refsect1>