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@@ -62,9 +62,14 @@ Changes since 2.6.9:
       There is also an analogous "fake super" option for an rsync daemon.
 
     - Added the --iconv option, which allows rsync to convert filenames from
-      one character-set to another during the transfer.  (If your system does
-      not support iconv, you must currently manually disable this by using
-      the --enable-iconv configure option.)
+      one character-set to another during the transfer.  The default is to make
+      this feature available as long as your system has iconv_open().  If
+      compilation fails, specify --disable-iconv to configure and rebuild.  If
+      you want rsync to perform character-set conversions by default, you can
+      specify --enable-iconv=CONVERT_STRING with the default value for the
+      --iconv option that you wish to use.  For example, --enable-iconv=. is a
+      good choice.  See the rsync man page for an explanation of the --iconv
+      option's settings.
 
     - You may specify --max-delete=0 to a 3.0.0 client as long as the receiving
       side is at least version 3.0.0.  This means that you can pull from an