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diff --git a/lisp/international/characters.el b/lisp/international/characters.el
index d6e83c81e74..245ade54e18 100644
--- a/lisp/international/characters.el
+++ b/lisp/international/characters.el
@@ -1661,12 +1661,14 @@ GROUP must be one of these symbols:
like U+2069 (PDI) and U+202B (RLE).
`variation-selectors':
Characters in the range U+FE00..U+FE0F and
- U+E0100..U+E01EF, used for selecting alternate glyph
- presentations, such as Emoji vs Text presentation, of
- the preceding character(s).
- `no-font': For GUI frames, characters for which no suitable
- font is found; for text-mode frames, characters
- that cannot be encoded by `terminal-coding-system'.
+ U+E0100..U+E01EF, used for choosing between
+ glyph variations, such as Emoji vs Text
+ presentation, of the preceding character(s).
+ `no-font': For GUI frames, characters for which no
+ suitable font is found; for text-mode frames,
+ characters that cannot be encoded by
+ `terminal-coding-system' or those for which
+ the terminal has no glyphs.
METHOD must be one of these symbols:
`zero-width': don't display.
@@ -1680,7 +1682,10 @@ METHOD must be one of these symbols:
Do not set its value directly from Lisp; the value takes effect
only via a custom `:set'
function (`update-glyphless-char-display'), which updates
-`glyphless-char-display'."
+`glyphless-char-display'.
+
+See also the `glyphless-char' face, which is used to display the
+visual representation of these characters."
:version "28.1"
:type '(alist :key-type (symbol :tag "Character Group")
:value-type (symbol :tag "Display Method"))