diff --git a/source/lex.tex b/source/lex.tex
index 8005b33374..f2dc26fe6c 100644
--- a/source/lex.tex
+++ b/source/lex.tex
@@ -317,6 +317,9 @@
 \pnum
 The \defnadj{basic}{character set} is a subset of the translation character set,
 consisting of 99 characters as specified in \tref{lex.charset.basic}.
+In this document,
+glyphs are often used to identify
+elements of the basic character set.
 \begin{note}
 Unicode short names are given only as a means to identifying the character;
 the numerical value has no other meaning in this context.
@@ -549,9 +552,6 @@
 \pnum
 A preprocessing token is the minimal lexical element of the language in translation
 phases 3 through 6.
-In this document,
-glyphs are used to identify
-elements of the basic character set\iref{lex.charset}.
 The categories of preprocessing token are: header names,
 placeholder tokens produced by preprocessing \tcode{import} and \tcode{module} directives
 (\grammarterm{import-keyword}, \grammarterm{module-keyword}, and \grammarterm{export-keyword}),