diff --git a/lib/request/basic.py b/lib/request/basic.py
index 8b5ded173..0804c4796 100644
--- a/lib/request/basic.py
+++ b/lib/request/basic.py
@@ -143,7 +143,7 @@ def getHeuristicCharEncoding(page):
     """
     retVal = detect(page)['encoding']
 
-    infoMsg  = "heuristics detected web page charset '%s'." % retVal
+    infoMsg  = "heuristics detected web page charset '%s'" % retVal
     singleTimeLogMessage(infoMsg, logging.INFO, retVal)
 
     return retVal