diff --git a/man7/utf-8.7 b/man7/utf-8.7
index bdf546850..65cabba00 100644
--- a/man7/utf-8.7
+++ b/man7/utf-8.7
@@ -258,15 +258,6 @@ The corresponding return sequence from
 to ISO 2022 is ESC % @ ("\\x1b%@").
 Other ISO 2022 sequences (such as
 for switching the G0 and G1 sets) are not applicable in UTF-8 mode.
-.PP
-It can be hoped that in the foreseeable future,
-.B UTF-8
-will replace
-.B ASCII
-and
-.B ISO 8859
-at all levels as the common character encoding on POSIX systems,
-leading to a significantly richer environment for handling plain text.
 .SS Security
 The
 .BR Unicode " and " UCS
@@ -291,6 +282,7 @@ ISO/IEC 10646-1:2000, Unicode 3.1, RFC\ 3629, Plan 9.
 .\" .SH AUTHOR
 .\" Markus Kuhn <mgk25@cl.cam.ac.uk>
 .SH SEE ALSO
+.BR locale (1),
 .BR nl_langinfo (3),
 .BR setlocale (3),
 .BR charsets (7),