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@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ binary octet, however their unreserved set of characters differs and
 `application/x-www-form-urlencoded` adds conversion of space to `+`,
 that has the potential to be misunderstood.
 
-This class encodes with rules that will be decoded correctly in either case.
+This library encodes with rules that will be decoded correctly in either case.
 
 Additionally, this library allocates no memory when encoding isn't needed and
 does the work in a single pass without multiple loops. Both of these