diff --git a/textproc/rubygem-charlock_holmes/Makefile b/textproc/rubygem-charlock_holmes/Makefile
index c5c253e257b9..dd01f8ec8e86 100644
--- a/textproc/rubygem-charlock_holmes/Makefile
+++ b/textproc/rubygem-charlock_holmes/Makefile
@@ -1,19 +1,19 @@
 PORTNAME=	charlock_holmes
 DISTVERSION=	0.7.7
 PORTREVISION=	7
 CATEGORIES=	textproc rubygems
 MASTER_SITES=	RG
 
 MAINTAINER=	sunpoet@FreeBSD.org
-COMMENT=	Gems for character encoding detection
+COMMENT=	Provide binary and text detection as well as text transcoding using libicu
 WWW=		https://github.com/brianmario/charlock_holmes
 
 LICENSE=	MIT
 
 LIB_DEPENDS=	libicui18n.so:devel/icu
 
 USES=		gem
 
 CONFIGURE_ARGS=	--with-icu-include=${LOCALBASE}/include
 
 .include <bsd.port.mk>