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diff --git a/doc/custom-readers.md b/doc/custom-readers.md index e0b6e4915..1004ca56c 100644 --- a/doc/custom-readers.md +++ b/doc/custom-readers.md @@ -78,13 +78,12 @@ ensuring backwards compatibility. # Bytestring readers -Pandoc expects text input to be UTF-8 encoded. However, formats -like docx, odt, epub, etc. are not text but binary formats. To -read them, pandoc supports `ByteStringReader` functions. These -functions work just like the `Reader` function that process text -input, but instead of a list of sources, `ByteStringReader` -functions are passed a bytestring, i.e., a string that contains -the binary input. +In order to read binary formats, including docx, odt, and epub, +pandoc supports the `ByteStringReader` function. A +`ByteStringReader` function is similar to the `Reader` function +that processes text input. Instead of a list of sources, the +ByteStringReader function is passed a bytestring, i.e., a string +that contains the binary input. ``` lua -- read input as epub |