diff --git a/doc/go_spec.html b/doc/go_spec.html
index 8a7e8ec032..c8d6f362e5 100644
--- a/doc/go_spec.html
+++ b/doc/go_spec.html
@@ -471,7 +471,7 @@ string composed of the uninterpreted (implicitly UTF-8-encoded) characters
 between the quotes;
 in particular, backslashes have no special meaning and the string may
 contain newlines.
-Carriage returns inside raw string literals
+Carriage return characters ('\r') inside raw string literals
 are discarded from the raw string value.
 </p>
 <p>