diff --git a/hledger/hledger.m4.md b/hledger/hledger.m4.md
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--- a/hledger/hledger.m4.md
+++ b/hledger/hledger.m4.md
@@ -3272,62 +3272,62 @@ you can do it by adding `encoding ENCODING` to your CSV rules.
 Eg: `encoding iso-8859-1`.
 
 The following encodings are supported
-(some other names and spellings are also accepted, but [not consistently](https://github.com/dmwit/encoding/issues/28))
+(some alternate names and spellings also work, but [inconsistently](https://github.com/dmwit/encoding/issues/28))
 :
 
-ascii,
-utf-8,
-utf-16,
-utf-32,
-iso-8859-1,
-iso-8859-2,
-iso-8859-3,
-iso-8859-4,
-iso-8859-5,
-iso-8859-6,
-iso-8859-7,
-iso-8859-8,
-iso-8859-9,
-iso-8859-10,
-iso-8859-11,
-iso-8859-13,
-iso-8859-14,
-iso-8859-15,
-iso-8859-16,
-cp1250,
-cp1251,
-cp1252,
-cp1253,
-cp1254,
-cp1255,
-cp1256,
-cp1257,
-cp1258,
-koi8-r,
-koi8-u,
-gb18030,
-macintosh,
-jis-x-0201,
-jis-x-0208,
-iso-2022-jp,
-shift-jis,
-cp437,
-cp737,
-cp775,
-cp850,
-cp852,
-cp855,
-cp857,
-cp860,
-cp861,
-cp862,
-cp863,
-cp864,
-cp865,
-cp866,
-cp869,
-cp874,
-cp932.
+`ascii`,
+`utf-8`,
+`utf-16`,
+`utf-32`,
+`iso-8859-1`,
+`iso-8859-2`,
+`iso-8859-3`,
+`iso-8859-4`,
+`iso-8859-5`,
+`iso-8859-6`,
+`iso-8859-7`,
+`iso-8859-8`,
+`iso-8859-9`,
+`iso-8859-10`,
+`iso-8859-11`,
+`iso-8859-13`,
+`iso-8859-14`,
+`iso-8859-15`,
+`iso-8859-16`,
+`cp1250`,
+`cp1251`,
+`cp1252`,
+`cp1253`,
+`cp1254`,
+`cp1255`,
+`cp1256`,
+`cp1257`,
+`cp1258`,
+`koi8-r`,
+`koi8-u`,
+`gb18030`,
+`macintosh`,
+`jis-x-0201`,
+`jis-x-0208`,
+`iso-2022-jp`,
+`shift-jis`,
+`cp437`,
+`cp737`,
+`cp775`,
+`cp850`,
+`cp852`,
+`cp855`,
+`cp857`,
+`cp860`,
+`cp861`,
+`cp862`,
+`cp863`,
+`cp864`,
+`cp865`,
+`cp866`,
+`cp869`,
+`cp874`,
+`cp932`.
 
 
 ## `separator`