diff --git a/Doc/howto/unicode.rst b/Doc/howto/unicode.rst
index 0946bdc..f92471a 100644
--- a/Doc/howto/unicode.rst
+++ b/Doc/howto/unicode.rst
@@ -158,7 +158,7 @@
 Encodings don't have to handle every possible Unicode character, and
 most encodings don't.  For example, Python's default encoding is the
 'ascii' encoding.  The rules for converting a Unicode string into the
-ASCII encoding are are simple; for each code point:
+ASCII encoding are simple; for each code point:
 
 1. If the code point is <128, each byte is the same as the value of the 
    code point.
@@ -721,7 +721,7 @@
 Thanks to the following people who have noted errors or offered
 suggestions on this article: Nicholas Bastin, 
 Marius Gedminas, Kent Johnson, Ken Krugler,
-Marc-André Lemburg, Martin von Löwis.
+Marc-André Lemburg, Martin von Löwis, Chad Whitacre.
 
 Version 1.0: posted August 5 2005.