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diff --git a/runtime/doc/builtin.txt b/runtime/doc/builtin.txt
index ceecc61b97..8b472523f1 100644
--- a/runtime/doc/builtin.txt
+++ b/runtime/doc/builtin.txt
@@ -8291,15 +8291,18 @@ tr({src}, {fromstr}, {tostr}) *tr()*
trim({text} [, {mask} [, {dir}]]) *trim()*
Return {text} as a String where any character in {mask} is
removed from the beginning and/or end of {text}.
- If {mask} is not given, {mask} is all characters up to 0x20,
- which includes Tab, space, NL and CR, plus the non-breaking
- space character 0xa0.
+
+ If {mask} is not given, or is an empty string, {mask} is all
+ characters up to 0x20, which includes Tab, space, NL and CR,
+ plus the non-breaking space character 0xa0.
+
The optional {dir} argument specifies where to remove the
characters:
0 remove from the beginning and end of {text}
1 remove only at the beginning of {text}
2 remove only at the end of {text}
When omitted both ends are trimmed.
+
This function deals with multibyte characters properly.
Returns an empty string on error.