diff --git a/src/corelib/serialization/qtextstream.cpp b/src/corelib/serialization/qtextstream.cpp
index c02effb1655..96dac0226f2 100644
--- a/src/corelib/serialization/qtextstream.cpp
+++ b/src/corelib/serialization/qtextstream.cpp
@@ -1949,7 +1949,7 @@ QTextStream &QTextStream::operator>>(QChar &c)
     \overload
 
     Reads a character from the stream and stores it in \a c. The
-    character from the stream is converted to ISO-5589-1 before it is
+    character from the stream is converted to ISO-8859-1 before it is
     stored.
 
     \sa QChar::toLatin1()