diff --git a/src/encoding/asn1/asn1.go b/src/encoding/asn1/asn1.go
index 7c260b49d9..f9b9cb4930 100644
--- a/src/encoding/asn1/asn1.go
+++ b/src/encoding/asn1/asn1.go
@@ -1067,6 +1067,15 @@ func setDefaultValue(v reflect.Value, params fieldParameters) (ok bool) {
 //	set         causes a SET, rather than a SEQUENCE type to be expected
 //	tag:x       specifies the ASN.1 tag number; implies ASN.1 CONTEXT SPECIFIC
 //
+// When decoding an ASN.1 value with an IMPLICIT tag into a string field,
+// Unmarshal will default to a PrintableString, which doesn't support
+// characters such as '@' and '&'. To force other encodings, use the following
+// tags:
+//
+//	ia5     causes strings to be unmarshaled as ASN.1 IA5String values
+//	numeric causes strings to be unmarshaled as ASN.1 NumericString values
+//	utf8    causes strings to be unmarshaled as ASN.1 UTF8String values
+//
 // If the type of the first field of a structure is RawContent then the raw
 // ASN1 contents of the struct will be stored in it.
 //