defined by <ulink url="https://systemd.io/BOOT_LOADER_SPECIFICATION">Boot Loader Specification</ulink>.
</para>
- <para>Each configuration file must consist of an option name, followed by
- whitespace, and the option value. <literal>#</literal> may be used to start
- a comment line. Empty and comment lines are ignored.</para>
+ <para>Each of these configuration files must consist of series of newline (i.e. ASCII code 10) separated
+ lines, each consisting of an option name, followed by whitespace, and the option
+ value. <literal>#</literal> may be used to start a comment line. Empty and comment lines are ignored. The
+ files use UTF-8 encoding.</para>
<para>Boolean arguments may be written as
<literal>yes</literal>/<literal>y</literal>/<literal>true</literal>/<literal>t</literal>/<literal>on</literal>/<literal>1</literal> or