diff --git a/docs/libcurl/curl_easy_setopt.3 b/docs/libcurl/curl_easy_setopt.3
index 3d31aef7c..2d6fa4e5d 100644
--- a/docs/libcurl/curl_easy_setopt.3
+++ b/docs/libcurl/curl_easy_setopt.3
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
 .\" *                            | (__| |_| |  _ <| |___
 .\" *                             \___|\___/|_| \_\_____|
 .\" *
-.\" * Copyright (C) 1998 - 2012, Daniel Stenberg, <daniel@haxx.se>, et al.
+.\" * Copyright (C) 1998 - 2013, Daniel Stenberg, <daniel@haxx.se>, et al.
 .\" *
 .\" * This software is licensed as described in the file COPYING, which
 .\" * you should have received as part of this distribution. The terms
@@ -1468,8 +1468,8 @@ connection. (added in 7.14.1)
 .IP CURLOPT_HTTP_CONTENT_DECODING
 Pass a long to tell libcurl how to act on content decoding. If set to zero,
 content decoding will be disabled. If set to 1 it is enabled. Libcurl has no
-default content decoding but requires you to use \fICURLOPT_ENCODING\fP for
-that. (added in 7.16.2)
+default content decoding but requires you to use \fICURLOPT_ACCEPT_ENCODING\fP
+for that. (added in 7.16.2)
 .IP CURLOPT_HTTP_TRANSFER_DECODING
 Pass a long to tell libcurl how to act on transfer decoding. If set to zero,
 transfer decoding will be disabled, if set to 1 it is enabled