diff --git a/docs/users_guide/7.10.2-notes.xml b/docs/users_guide/7.10.2-notes.xml
index 37a498a145a1cce0143c5eb1cd8e43ddee336102..83a78898a44f8a026a6490a166870c1704f4f80b 100644
--- a/docs/users_guide/7.10.2-notes.xml
+++ b/docs/users_guide/7.10.2-notes.xml
@@ -183,7 +183,7 @@
             has been fixed, so these programs will now terminate with
             an error. As a result of this change, however, GHC
             compiled programs now also specifically recognize ASCII
-            encodings, and can bypass iconv in these cases. This
+            encodings, and can function without iconv in these cases. This
             allows statically compiled programs to exist inside an
             initramfs, for example (issues #10298, #7695).
           </para>