diff --git a/man3/wcstok.3 b/man3/wcstok.3
index 401411d98..af642ca46 100644
--- a/man3/wcstok.3
+++ b/man3/wcstok.3
@@ -108,9 +108,9 @@ The following code loops over the tokens contained in a wide-character string.
 wchar_t *wcs = ...;
 wchar_t *token;
 wchar_t *state;
-for (token = wcstok(wcs, " \et\en", &state);
+for (token = wcstok(wcs, L" \et\en", &state);
     token != NULL;
-    token = wcstok(NULL, " \et\en", &state)) {
+    token = wcstok(NULL, L" \et\en", &state)) {
     ...
 }
 .EE