diff --git a/src/corelib/serialization/qdatastream.cpp b/src/corelib/serialization/qdatastream.cpp
index 8f419a4a461..09e98cb2b4f 100644
--- a/src/corelib/serialization/qdatastream.cpp
+++ b/src/corelib/serialization/qdatastream.cpp
@@ -1081,7 +1081,7 @@ QDataStream &QDataStream::readBytes(char *&s, uint &l)
     Reads at most \a len bytes from the stream into \a s and returns the number of
     bytes read. If an error occurs, this function returns -1.
 
-    The buffer \a s must be preallocated. The data is \e not encoded.
+    The buffer \a s must be preallocated. The data is \e not decoded.
 
     \sa readBytes(), QIODevice::read(), writeRawData()
 */