diff --git a/lisp/descr-text.el b/lisp/descr-text.el
index 514958484b2..5ab2fec4fad 100644
--- a/lisp/descr-text.el
+++ b/lisp/descr-text.el
@@ -217,7 +217,7 @@ otherwise."
 (defcustom describe-char-unicodedata-file nil
   "Location of Unicode data file.
 This is the UnicodeData.txt file from the Unicode consortium, used for
-diagnostics.  If it is non-nil `describe-char-after' will print data
+diagnostics.  If it is non-nil `describe-char' will print data
 looked up from it.  This facility is mostly of use to people doing
 multilingual development.