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diff --git a/include/wimlib.h b/include/wimlib.h
index 7254a126..277932d6 100644
--- a/include/wimlib.h
+++ b/include/wimlib.h
@@ -141,20 +141,21 @@
* messages and strings (as well as all documentation, for that matter) are only
* available in English.
*
- * @section sec_encodings Locales and character encodings
+ * @section sec_encodings Character encoding
*
* To support Windows as well as UNIX-like systems, wimlib's API typically takes
- * and returns strings of ::wimlib_tchar, which are in a platform-dependent
- * encoding.
+ * and returns strings of ::wimlib_tchar which have a platform-dependent type
+ * and encoding.
*
- * On Windows, each ::wimlib_tchar is 2 bytes and is the same as a "wchar_t",
- * and the encoding is UTF-16LE.
+ * On Windows, each ::wimlib_tchar is a 2-byte wchar_t. The encoding
+ * is meant to be UTF-16LE. However, unpaired surrogates are permitted because
+ * neither Windows nor the NTFS filesystem forbids them in filenames.
*
- * On UNIX-like systems, each ::wimlib_tchar is 1 byte and is simply a "char",
- * and the encoding is the locale-dependent multibyte encoding. I recommend you
- * set your locale to a UTF-8 capable locale to avoid any issues. Also, by
- * default, wimlib on UNIX will assume the locale is UTF-8 capable unless you
- * call wimlib_global_init() after having set your desired locale.
+ * On UNIX-like systems, each ::wimlib_tchar is a 1 byte char. The
+ * encoding is meant to be UTF-8. However, for compatibility with Windows-style
+ * filenames that are not valid UTF-16LE, surrogate codepoints are permitted.
+ * Other multibyte encodings (e.g. ISO-8859-1) or garbage sequences of bytes are
+ * not permitted.
*
* @section sec_advanced Additional information and features
*
@@ -2323,9 +2324,7 @@ typedef int (*wimlib_iterate_lookup_table_callback_t)(const struct wimlib_resour
/** @addtogroup G_general
* @{ */
-/** Assume that strings are represented in UTF-8, even if this is not the
- * locale's character encoding. This flag is ignored on Windows, where wimlib
- * always uses UTF-16LE. */
+/** Deprecated; no longer has any effect. */
#define WIMLIB_INIT_FLAG_ASSUME_UTF8 0x00000001
/** Windows-only: do not attempt to acquire additional privileges (currently
@@ -2462,7 +2461,6 @@ enum wimlib_error_code {
WIMLIB_ERR_DECOMPRESSION = 2,
WIMLIB_ERR_FUSE = 6,
WIMLIB_ERR_GLOB_HAD_NO_MATCHES = 8,
- WIMLIB_ERR_ICONV_NOT_AVAILABLE = 9,
WIMLIB_ERR_IMAGE_COUNT = 10,
WIMLIB_ERR_IMAGE_NAME_COLLISION = 11,
WIMLIB_ERR_INSUFFICIENT_PRIVILEGES = 12,
@@ -2475,7 +2473,6 @@ enum wimlib_error_code {
WIMLIB_ERR_INVALID_INTEGRITY_TABLE = 19,
WIMLIB_ERR_INVALID_LOOKUP_TABLE_ENTRY = 20,
WIMLIB_ERR_INVALID_METADATA_RESOURCE = 21,
- WIMLIB_ERR_INVALID_MULTIBYTE_STRING = 22,
WIMLIB_ERR_INVALID_OVERLAY = 23,
WIMLIB_ERR_INVALID_PARAM = 24,
WIMLIB_ERR_INVALID_PART_NUMBER = 25,
@@ -3278,9 +3275,8 @@ wimlib_get_xml_data(WIMStruct *wim, void **buf_ret, size_t *bufsize_ret);
*
* Initialization function for wimlib. Call before using any other wimlib
* function (except possibly wimlib_set_print_errors()). If not done manually,
- * this function will be called automatically with @p init_flags set to
- * ::WIMLIB_INIT_FLAG_ASSUME_UTF8. This function does nothing if called again
- * after it has already successfully run.
+ * this function will be called automatically with a flags argument of 0. This
+ * function does nothing if called again after it has already successfully run.
*
* @param init_flags
* Bitwise OR of flags prefixed with WIMLIB_INIT_FLAG.