diff --git a/doc/ChangeLog b/doc/ChangeLog
index 5e29c547..1a70e3cd 100644
--- a/doc/ChangeLog
+++ b/doc/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2013-06-17  Dave Reisner  <dreisner@archlinux.org> (tiny change)
+
+	* texi2pod.pl: Fix formatting error that causes build to fail with
+	Perl 5.18
+
 2013-06-17  Darshit Shah  <darnir@gmail.com>
 
 	* wget.texi (POST): Explain the new redirection rules.
diff --git a/doc/texi2pod.pl b/doc/texi2pod.pl
index 86c4b189..9db6de17 100755
--- a/doc/texi2pod.pl
+++ b/doc/texi2pod.pl
@@ -291,7 +291,7 @@ while(<$inf>) {
 	if (defined $1) {
             my $thing = $1;
             if ($ic =~ /\@asis/) {
-                $_ = "\n=item $thing\n";
+                $_ = "\n=item C<$thing>\n";
             } else {
                 # Entity escapes prevent munging by the <> processing below.
                 $_ = "\n=item $ic\&LT;$thing\&GT;\n";