diff --git a/basis/unicode/summary.txt b/basis/unicode/summary.txt
index 8bd1149524..bf91e29ff4 100644
--- a/basis/unicode/summary.txt
+++ b/basis/unicode/summary.txt
@@ -1 +1 @@
-Unicode 5.1 support
+Unicode 5.2 support
diff --git a/core/strings/strings-docs.factor b/core/strings/strings-docs.factor
index f7275c10aa..6fb6909da8 100644
--- a/core/strings/strings-docs.factor
+++ b/core/strings/strings-docs.factor
@@ -4,13 +4,9 @@ sbufs math help.vocabs ;
 IN: strings
 
 ARTICLE: "strings" "Strings"
-"The " { $vocab-link "strings" } " vocabulary implements fixed-size mutable sequences of of Unicode 5.1 code points."
+"The " { $vocab-link "strings" } " vocabulary implements a data type for storing text. Strings are represented as fixed-size mutable sequences of Unicode code points. Code points are represented as integers in the range [0,2,097,152]."
 $nl
-"Code points, or characters as they're informally known, are not a first-class type; they are simply represented as integers in the range 0 and 16,777,216 (2^24), inclusive. Only characters up to 2,097,152 (2^21) have a defined meaning in Unicode."
-$nl
-"String literal syntax is covered in " { $link "syntax-strings" } "."
-$nl
-"Since strings implement the " { $link "sequence-protocol" } ", basic string manipulation can be performed with " { $link "sequences" } " in the " { $vocab-link "sequences" } " vocabulary. More text processing functionality can be found in vocabularies carrying the " { $link T{ vocab-tag { name "text" } } } " tag."
+"Strings implement the " { $link "sequence-protocol" } ", and basic string manipulation can be performed with " { $link "sequences" } " from the " { $vocab-link "sequences" } " vocabulary. More text processing functionality can be found in vocabularies carrying the " { $link T{ vocab-tag { name "text" } } } " tag."
 $nl
 "Strings form a class:"
 { $subsections
@@ -23,7 +19,8 @@ $nl
     <string>
 }
 "Creating a string from a single character:"
-{ $subsections 1string } ;
+{ $subsections 1string }
+{ $see-also "syntax-strings" "sbufs" "unicode" "io.encodings" } ;
 
 ABOUT: "strings"
 
diff --git a/core/syntax/syntax-docs.factor b/core/syntax/syntax-docs.factor
index f587bcaee0..a8d5de5c27 100644
--- a/core/syntax/syntax-docs.factor
+++ b/core/syntax/syntax-docs.factor
@@ -129,7 +129,7 @@ ARTICLE: "escape" "Character escape codes"
 } ;
 
 ARTICLE: "syntax-strings" "Character and string syntax"
-"Factor has no distinct character type, however Unicode character value integers can be read by specifying a literal character, or an escaped representation thereof."
+"Factor has no distinct character type. Integers representing Unicode code points can be read by specifying a literal character, or an escaped representation thereof."
 { $subsections
     POSTPONE: CHAR:
     POSTPONE: "
@@ -537,7 +537,7 @@ HELP: IN:
 
 HELP: CHAR:
 { $syntax "CHAR: token" }
-{ $values { "token" "a literal character, escape code, or Unicode character name" } }
+{ $values { "token" "a literal character, escape code, or Unicode code point name" } }
 { $description "Adds a Unicode code point to the parse tree." }
 { $examples
     { $code