a paragraph of text). This can be changed by adding an
<CODE>encoding</CODE> attribute, which will remain in effect until
the next <CODE>encoding</CODE> attribute is encountered or the
-element ends, whichever comes first. Note that only special
+element ends, whichever comes first. Note that the
+<CODE>encoding</CODE> attribute must <EM>precede</EM> the corresponding
+<CODE>var</CODE> attribute to be effective, and that only special
characters as defined in the ISO-8859-1 character encoding will be
encoded. This encoding process may not have the desired result if
-a different character encoding is in use. Apache 1.3.12 and above; previous
-versions do no encoding.
+a different character encoding is in use.
+Apache 1.3.12 and above; previous versions do no encoding.
</DL>