diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index d532da3c85..0fdec7b40a 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+Wed Jan  5 21:41:26 CET 2000  Marc Lehmann <pcg@goof.com>
+
+	* README.i18n: fixed confusing "prototype" for N_.
+
 Wed Jan  5 21:46:07 CET 2000  Sven Neumann <sven@gimp.org>
 
 	* app/gradient_select.c: open the gradient editor on double-click
diff --git a/README.i18n b/README.i18n
index f5c2573c0b..45fbf7337e 100644
--- a/README.i18n
+++ b/README.i18n
@@ -62,7 +62,7 @@ Actually this one is maintained by me, that is Daniel Egger
  gettext(text) instead.
  
 
-3.2 N_() [more correctly: void ( void ) ]
+3.2 N_() [more correctly: const char * ( const char * ) ]
 
  This one is a macro for the function gettext_noop(). As you can see and
  guess it doesn't really do anything in the programm i.e. it is a dummy
@@ -150,4 +150,5 @@ Actually this one is maintained by me, that is Daniel Egger
  tell it to me, too....
 
 Happy Gimping. Yours,
-                     Daniel Egger
\ No newline at end of file
+                     Daniel Egger
+