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-.TH WIMLIB-IMAGEX 1 "December 2013" "@IMAGEX_PROGNAME@ @VERSION@" "User Commands"
+.TH WIMLIB-IMAGEX 1 "January 2014" "@IMAGEX_PROGNAME@ @VERSION@" "User Commands"
 .SH NAME
 @IMAGEX_PROGNAME@ \- Create, modify, extract, mount, or unmount a WIM (Windows Imaging Format) archive
 .SH SYNOPSIS
@@ -170,17 +170,38 @@ mounting an image from a split WIM, but Microsoft's software does not.  (Note:
 this functionality is not available in Windows builds of wimlib and
 \fB@IMAGEX_PROGNAME@\fR.)
 .SH LOCALES AND CHARACTER ENCODINGS
-On Windows, wimlib works in UTF-16LE, and there should be no problems with
-character encodings.
+WIM files themselves store file and stream names using UTF-16LE.  On Windows,
+wimlib works in UTF-16LE, so conversions are usually not necessary and there
+should be no problems with character encodings.
 .PP
-On UNIX, wimlib works primarily in the locale-dependent multibyte encoding,
-which you are strongly recommended to set to UTF-8 to avoid any problems.
+On UNIX-like systems, wimlib works primarily in the locale-dependent multibyte
+encoding, which you are strongly recommended to set to UTF-8 to avoid any
+problems.  You can alternatively set the environmental variable
+\fBWIMLIB_IMAGEX_USE_UTF8\fR to force \fB@IMAGEX_PROGNAME@\fR to use UTF-8
+character encoding internally, even if the current locale is not UTF-8
+compatible.
 .SH CASE SENSITIVITY
-The case sensitivity of \fB@IMAGEX_PROGNAME@\fR differs somewhat between
-UNIX-like systems and Windows.  Filenames are internally treated as
-case-sensitive, but on Windows paths actually provided by the user will be
-treated as case-insensitive in order to get the "expected" behavior.  Otherwise,
-options and non-path arguments should be specified in lower case.
+By default, the case sensitivity of \fB@IMAGEX_PROGNAME@\fR differs somewhat
+between UNIX-like systems and Windows.  WIM images may (but usually do not) have
+multiple files with the same case-insensitive name.  Internally, wimlib
+stores filenames as case-sensitive, but on Windows paths
+actually provided by the user for use in a WIM image (e.g. for extracting,
+adding, renaming, or deleting files) will by default be treated as
+case-insensitive in order to get the "expected" behavior. This differs from the
+default behavior on UNIX-like systems, where such paths will be treated as
+case-sensitive.  Note that with case insensitivity, a path component may in
+general be ambiguous due to multiple files or directories having the same
+case-insensitive name.  In such cases, if there is a file or directory with an
+exactly matching name, it is chosen; otherwise, one of the case-insensitively
+matching file or directories is chosen arbitrarily.
+.PP
+The default behavior can be overridden by explicitly setting the environmental
+variable \fBWIMLIB_IMAGEX_IGNORE_CASE\fR to 1, in which case such paths will be
+treated case insensitively, or 0, in which such paths will be treated case
+sensitively.
+.PP
+Regardless of these settings, options and non-path arguments must be specified
+in lower case.
 .SH LICENSE
 wimlib and \fB@IMAGEX_PROGNAME@\fR are distributed under the GNU General Public
 License version 3 or later.  Be aware this means this software is provided as-is