diff --git a/include/curl/curl.h b/include/curl/curl.h
index 1a7ba7695..b44649588 100644
--- a/include/curl/curl.h
+++ b/include/curl/curl.h
@@ -467,7 +467,7 @@ typedef enum {
   CURLE_SSL_CERTPROBLEM,         /* 58 - problem with the local certificate */
   CURLE_SSL_CIPHER,              /* 59 - couldn't use specified cipher */
   CURLE_SSL_CACERT,              /* 60 - problem with the CA cert (path?) */
-  CURLE_BAD_CONTENT_ENCODING,    /* 61 - Unrecognized transfer encoding */
+  CURLE_BAD_CONTENT_ENCODING,    /* 61 - Unrecognized/bad encoding */
   CURLE_LDAP_INVALID_URL,        /* 62 - Invalid LDAP URL */
   CURLE_FILESIZE_EXCEEDED,       /* 63 - Maximum file size exceeded */
   CURLE_USE_SSL_FAILED,          /* 64 - Requested FTP SSL level failed */
diff --git a/lib/strerror.c b/lib/strerror.c
index 8144f78f0..59f2df5f7 100644
--- a/lib/strerror.c
+++ b/lib/strerror.c
@@ -211,7 +211,7 @@ curl_easy_strerror(CURLcode error)
     return "Problem with the SSL CA cert (path? access rights?)";
 
   case CURLE_BAD_CONTENT_ENCODING:
-    return "Unrecognized HTTP Content-Encoding";
+    return "Unrecognized or bad HTTP Content or Transfer-Encoding";
 
   case CURLE_LDAP_INVALID_URL:
     return "Invalid LDAP URL";