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diff --git a/core/java/android/webkit/WebView.java b/core/java/android/webkit/WebView.java
index 7146d0d..79b952f 100644
--- a/core/java/android/webkit/WebView.java
+++ b/core/java/android/webkit/WebView.java
@@ -832,7 +832,10 @@ public class WebView extends AbsoluteLayout
* <p>
* If the base URL uses the data scheme, this method is equivalent to
* calling {@link #loadData(String,String,String) loadData()} and the
- * historyUrl is ignored.
+ * historyUrl is ignored, and the data will be treated as part of a data: URL.
+ * If the base URL uses any other scheme, then the data will be loaded into
+ * the WebView as a plain string (i.e. not part of a data URL) and any URL-encoded
+ * entities in the string will not be decoded.
*
* @param baseUrl the URL to use as the page's base URL. If null defaults to
* 'about:blank'.