diff --git a/pep-0345.txt b/pep-0345.txt
index c59a65562..cb26e4129 100644
--- a/pep-0345.txt
+++ b/pep-0345.txt
@@ -127,7 +127,7 @@ field as-is.  This means that authors should be conservative in
 the markup they use.
 
 To support empty lines and lines with indentation with respect to
-the RFC 822 format, any new line has to be suffixed by 7 spaces
+the RFC 822 format, any CRLF character has to be suffixed by 7 spaces
 followed by a pipe ("|") char. As a result, the Description field is
 encoded into a folded field that can be interpreted by RFC822
 parser [2]_.
@@ -143,8 +143,9 @@ Example::
             |    3
             |
 
-This encoding implies that any occurences of "``\n |``" have to be replaced
-by "``\n``" when the field is unfolded using a RFC822 reader.
+This encoding implies that any occurences of a CRLF followed by 7 spaces
+and a pipe char have to be replaced by a single CRLF when the field is unfolded
+using a RFC822 reader.
 
 
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