diff --git a/src/corelib/doc/snippets/code/src_corelib_text_qstringconverter.cpp b/src/corelib/doc/snippets/code/src_corelib_text_qstringconverter.cpp
index 97d28d54285..3ad0880bca5 100644
--- a/src/corelib/doc/snippets/code/src_corelib_text_qstringconverter.cpp
+++ b/src/corelib/doc/snippets/code/src_corelib_text_qstringconverter.cpp
@@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ QString string = toUtf16(encodedString);
 //! [1]
 QString string = "...";
 auto fromUtf16 = QStringEncoder(QStringEncoder::Utf8);
-QByteArray encodedString = fromUtf16(encodedString);
+QByteArray encodedString = fromUtf16(string);
 //! [1]