diff --git a/org.springframework.beans/src/main/java/org/springframework/beans/propertyeditors/URIEditor.java b/org.springframework.beans/src/main/java/org/springframework/beans/propertyeditors/URIEditor.java
index a663c2116d..61731b0b03 100644
--- a/org.springframework.beans/src/main/java/org/springframework/beans/propertyeditors/URIEditor.java
+++ b/org.springframework.beans/src/main/java/org/springframework/beans/propertyeditors/URIEditor.java
@@ -101,8 +101,8 @@ public class URIEditor extends PropertyEditorSupport {
 
 	/**
 	 * Create a URI instance for the given (resolved) String value.
-	 * <p>The default implementation uses the <code>URI(String)</code>
-	 * constructor, replacing spaces with "%20" quotes first.
+	 * <p>The default implementation encodes the value into a RFC
+	 * 2396 compliant URI.
 	 * @param value the value to convert into a URI instance
 	 * @return the URI instance
 	 * @throws java.net.URISyntaxException if URI conversion failed