diff --git a/etc/NEWS b/etc/NEWS
index b9937e07610..9f899f48d7f 100644
--- a/etc/NEWS
+++ b/etc/NEWS
@@ -29,6 +29,7 @@ between ISO 8859 character sets (`unification') on encoding
 `unify-8859-on-encoding-mode' is useful and safe, but
 `unify-8859-on-decoding-mode' can cause text to change when you read
 it and write it out again without edits, so it is not generally advisable.
+By default `unify-8859-on-encoding-mode' is turned on.
 
 ** The default value of selection-coding-system is now
 compound-text-with-extensions.