diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 2da4107de..c086fe912 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,6 +1,10 @@
 === Deluge 1.2.0_rc4 (In Development) ===
 ==== Web ====
 	* Fix installing the deluge-web manpage
+	* Escape hyphens in the manpage
+
+==== Console ====
+	* Escape hyphens in the manpage
 
 === Deluge 1.2.0_rc3 (01 November 2009) ===
 ==== Core ====
diff --git a/docs/man/deluge-console.1 b/docs/man/deluge-console.1
index 67da41cd3..fc2f6dd56 100644
--- a/docs/man/deluge-console.1
+++ b/docs/man/deluge-console.1
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ deluge-console - a bittorrent client curses interface
 Deluge utilizes a client/server model, with 'deluged' being the daemon process and 'deluge-console' being used to launch a console user-interface.
 .br
 .P
-You can pass console commands directly from the command line, see `deluge-console --help` for a list of commands.
+You can pass console commands directly from the command line, see `deluge-console \-\-help` for a list of commands.
 Run multiple commands by separating them with a semi-colon (;).
 
 .SH OPTIONS
diff --git a/docs/man/deluge-web.1 b/docs/man/deluge-web.1
index 0017feb57..23771d466 100644
--- a/docs/man/deluge-web.1
+++ b/docs/man/deluge-web.1
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ Deluge utilizes a client/server model, with 'deluged' being the daemon process a
 .P
 
 .SH OPTIONS
-See `deluge-web --help` for common options, the web specific options are:
+See `deluge-web \-\-help` for common options, the web specific options are:
 .TP
 .B -p PORT, --port=PORT
 Sets the port to be used for the webserver