diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 5dbdbcaf5d..69665cde26 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -266,6 +266,11 @@ New Functionality
   by whitespace.  So for example "/foo|(+i bar)/" will match "BaR", but
   not "FoO".
 
+  For both ways of specifying case-insensitivity, characters enclosed in
+  double quotes maintain their case-sensitivity.  So for example /"foo"/i
+  will not match "Foo", but it will match "foo".
+
+
 Changed Functionality
 ---------------------
 
diff --git a/doc/script-reference/types.rst b/doc/script-reference/types.rst
index d24ce09b8c..36ed0f5bfa 100644
--- a/doc/script-reference/types.rst
+++ b/doc/script-reference/types.rst
@@ -260,6 +260,10 @@ Here is a more detailed description of each type:
     trailing whitespace after the ``+i`` designator.  So, for example,
     ``/foo|(+i bar)/`` will match "foo" and "BaR", but *not* "Foo".
 
+    For both ways of specifying case-insensitivity, characters enclosed
+    in double quotes maintain their case-sensitivity.  So for example
+    /"foo"/i will not match "Foo", but it will match "foo".
+
 .. bro:type:: port
 
     A type representing transport-level port numbers (besides TCP and