diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index 7e45c71..a1adace 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -16,5 +16,5 @@ Description: Encode binary files to printable utf16be
  There are 16384 Chinese characters (from \u4E00 to \u8DFF)
  being selected as the "alphabet", just like what base64 did.
  If length of the data has a remainder after mod 7,
- unicode Chinese characters \u3Dxx will be used to present it
+ an unicode Chinese character \u3Dxx will be appended to present it
  with xx ranging from 01 to 06.