diff --git a/lib/request/basic.py b/lib/request/basic.py
index 37e8c7cf7..1e9ce6d60 100644
--- a/lib/request/basic.py
+++ b/lib/request/basic.py
@@ -165,7 +165,7 @@ def getHeuristicCharEncoding(page):
     """
     retVal = detect(page)["encoding"]
 
-    infoMsg = "detected web page charset '%s'" % retVal
+    infoMsg = "heuristics detected web page charset '%s'" % retVal
     singleTimeLogMessage(infoMsg, logging.INFO, retVal)
 
     return retVal