diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 22766433e39..dc673fd5af3 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ Library
 
 - Issue #10983: Fix several bugs making tunnel requests in http.client.
 
-- Issue #10955: zipimport uses ASCII encoding instead of cp497 to decode
+- Issue #10955: zipimport uses ASCII encoding instead of cp437 to decode
   filenames, at bootstrap, if the codec registry is not ready yet. It is still
   possible to have non-ASCII filenames using the Unicode flag (UTF-8 encoding)
   for all file entries in the ZIP file.