diff --git a/src/pkg/strconv/quote.go b/src/pkg/strconv/quote.go
index 8cbef88b51..7d6cdcf0b5 100644
--- a/src/pkg/strconv/quote.go
+++ b/src/pkg/strconv/quote.go
@@ -133,7 +133,7 @@ func QuoteRuneToASCII(r rune) string {
 	return quoteWith(string(r), '\'', true)
 }
 
-// AppendQuoteRune appends a single-quoted Go character literal representing the rune,
+// AppendQuoteRuneToASCII appends a single-quoted Go character literal representing the rune,
 // as generated by QuoteRuneToASCII, to dst and returns the extended buffer.
 func AppendQuoteRuneToASCII(dst []byte, r rune) []byte {
 	return append(dst, QuoteRuneToASCII(r)...)