diff --git a/doc/ffmpeg.texi b/doc/ffmpeg.texi
index d0fe327c15..0c3cbc3cde 100644
--- a/doc/ffmpeg.texi
+++ b/doc/ffmpeg.texi
@@ -978,7 +978,7 @@ ffmpeg -filter_complex 'color=red' -t 5 out.mkv
 
 As a special exception, you can use a bitmap subtitle stream as input: it
 will be converted into a video with the same size as the largest video in
-the file, or 720×576 if no video is present. Note that this is an
+the file, or 720x576 if no video is present. Note that this is an
 experimental and temporary solution. It will be removed once libavfilter has
 proper support for subtitles.