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1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/magic.py b/magic.py
index 92005bd..ccddf46 100644
--- a/magic.py
+++ b/magic.py
@@ -239,7 +239,8 @@ def maybe_decode(s):
     if str == bytes:
         return s
     else:
-        # backslashreplace here because sometimes
+        # backslashreplace here because sometimes libmagic will return metadata in the charset
+        # of the file, which is unknown to us (e.g the title of a Word doc)
         return s.decode('utf-8', 'backslashreplace')