Add support for 'S' encoding to strings - display 8-bit characters.

[deliverable/binutils-gdb.git] / binutils / doc / binutils.texi

diff --git a/binutils/doc/binutils.texi b/binutils/doc/binutils.texi
index 57103f0e846295f690a9e3626fd9deebd1e752ef..26ed7f9a3eb5377eed41dfba8d95ca32a40eca36 100644 (file)
--- a/binutils/doc/binutils.texi
+++ b/binutils/doc/binutils.texi
@@ -1956,11 +1956,11 @@ octal, @samp{x} for hexadecimal, or @samp{d} for decimal.
 @item -e @var{encoding}
 @itemx --encoding=@var{encoding}
 Select the character encoding of the strings that are to be found.
-Possible values for @var{encoding} are: @samp{s} = single-byte
-characters (ASCII, ISO 8859, etc., default), @samp{b} = 16-bit
-Bigendian, @samp{l} = 16-bit Littleendian, @samp{B} = 32-bit Bigendian,
-@samp{L} = 32-bit Littleendian. Useful for finding wide character
-strings.
+Possible values for @var{encoding} are: @samp{s} = single-7-bit-byte
+characters (ASCII, ISO 8859, etc., default), @samp{S} =
+single-8-bit-byte characters, @samp{b} = 16-bit bigendian, @samp{l} =
+16-bit littleendian, @samp{B} = 32-bit bigendian, @samp{L} = 32-bit
+littleendian. Useful for finding wide character strings.
 
 @item --target=@var{bfdname}
 @cindex object code format