diff --git a/docs/i18n.txt b/docs/i18n.txt
index 8beb2188e86..1ae30241571 100644
--- a/docs/i18n.txt
+++ b/docs/i18n.txt
@@ -461,8 +461,8 @@ otherwise, they'll be tacked together without whitespace!
     you'll be using to edit the content. Due to the way the ``gettext`` tools
     work internally and because we want to allow non-ASCII source strings in
     Django's core and your applications, you **must** use UTF-8 as the encoding
-    for your PO file (this means that everybody will be using the same
-    encoding, which is important when Django processes the PO files).
+    for your PO file. This means that everybody will be using the same
+    encoding, which is important when Django processes the PO files.
 
 To reexamine all source code and templates for new translation strings and
 update all message files for **all** languages, run this::