diff --git a/misc/README b/misc/README
index f36f6ae0251483757d0ad782adb3418830c2b118..bef092f849ec6068b865c96c3d2599f76289ef9e 100644
--- a/misc/README
+++ b/misc/README
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
+//
 // $Id$
 //
 // Miscellaneous files for developers:
@@ -13,8 +14,9 @@ watch cursor movement, drawing artefacts, etc..
 
 CAUTION: Do not 'cat' these files unless you know what you're doing.
 Especially the cp1252* files can contain control characters that may freeze
-your screen (xterm etc.). 
+your screen (xterm etc.).
 
+Detailed file description:
 
 The "native" encoded files contain 8-bit characters with binary values that
 can be seen at the top and left borders, resp. (add both). They should look
@@ -32,6 +34,21 @@ capable systems.
 The files with names iso-8859-1_* contain only the ISO-8859-1 subset, i.e.
 the colums with character codes x'80' - x'9F' (U+0080 - U+009F) are empty.
 
+Special Notes:
+
+  U+0022 ("quotation mark") is doubled intentionally. This has been done for
+  better results in test/editor, because otherwise the rest of the file would
+  be shown in blue color (as a comment).
+
+  U+0098 ("small tilde") may not display correctly on Windows systems. I saw
+  the same effect with other Windows editors as well. The following characters
+  may be display "shifted left" by one position. Seems to work correctly on
+  Linux (with UTF-8 encoding).
+  
+  There may currently be drawing artefacts when moving the cursor forwards
+  and/or backwards over some "special" characters.
+
+
 References:
 
   http://unicode.org/Public/MAPPINGS/ISO8859/8859-1.TXT
@@ -50,8 +67,8 @@ The following two files contain the full Windows Codepage 1252:
 
 The following two files contain only the ISO-8859-1 characters:
 
- iso-8859-1.txt
- iso-8859-1_utf-8.txt
+ iso-8859-1.txt		native (Windows) encoding, suitable for FLTK 1.1
+ iso-8859-1_utf-8.txt	UTF-8 encoding, suitable for FLTK 1.3 and greater
 
 
 
@@ -61,11 +78,12 @@ Other developer support files:
   doxystar.cxx		Use this to reformat doxygen comments (test only).
 
 	Compile with:	g++ -o doxystar doxystar.cxx
-	
+
 	Usage:		cat file | doxystar
 
   DO NOT USE this for current code development!
-  It is intended for testing of for future code reformatting !
+
+  It is intended for testing of future code reformatting !
 
 //
 // End of $Id$.
diff --git a/misc/cp1252_utf-8.txt b/misc/cp1252_utf-8.txt
index 14ef81da72212006615d6658eb76e6a1bb54ad31..240f0f1f8598781eb834aa46ccd14ec6d51610c0 100644
--- a/misc/cp1252_utf-8.txt
+++ b/misc/cp1252_utf-8.txt
@@ -20,5 +20,5 @@
 | 15 | F |  SI  US   /   ?   O   _   o  DEL      Ÿ   ¯   ¿   Ï   ß   ï   ÿ |
 +----+---+-----------------------------------------------------------------+
 
-File:		cp1252_utf8.txt
+File:		cp1252_utf-8.txt
 Encoding:	UTF-8