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diff --git a/DOCS/man/en/mplayer.1 b/DOCS/man/en/mplayer.1
index 94a9203d7c..10912cbd33 100644
--- a/DOCS/man/en/mplayer.1
+++ b/DOCS/man/en/mplayer.1
@@ -577,8 +577,13 @@ Specify configuration file to be parsed after the default ones.
Prints all available options.
.
.TP
-.B \-msgcharset
-FIXME: Document this!
+.B \-msgcharset (see also MPLAYER_CHARSET environment variable)
+Convert console messages to the specified charset (default: autodetect).
+This will only come into effect after commandline parsing has finished,
+use MPLAYER_CHARSET to get rid of the first lines of garbled output.
+You can set this to "noconv" to completely disable the conversion (e.g. if you
+have problems with iconv). Text will then be in the encoding specified
+with the --charset configure option.
.
.TP
.B \-msglevel <all=<level>:<module>=<level>:...>
@@ -9392,8 +9397,9 @@ There are a number of environment variables that can be used to
control the behavior of MPlayer and MEncoder.
.
.TP
-.B MPLAYER_CHARSET
-FIXME: Document this.
+.B MPLAYER_CHARSET (see also \-msgcharset commandline option)
+Convert console messages to the specified charset (default: autodetect).
+A value of "noconv" means no conversion will be done.
.
.TP
.B MPLAYER_HOME