diff --git a/jdk/src/java.base/share/classes/java/lang/String.java b/jdk/src/java.base/share/classes/java/lang/String.java
index 1bd125dae54..d28dcdd823a 100644
--- a/jdk/src/java.base/share/classes/java/lang/String.java
+++ b/jdk/src/java.base/share/classes/java/lang/String.java
@@ -335,7 +335,7 @@ public final class String
      * subarray.
      *
      * <p> Each {@code byte} in the subarray is converted to a {@code char} as
-     * specified in the method above.
+     * specified in the {@link #String(byte[],int) String(byte[],int)} constructor.
      *
      * @deprecated This method does not properly convert bytes into characters.
      * As of JDK&nbsp;1.1, the preferred way to do this is via the
@@ -390,7 +390,7 @@ public final class String
 
     /**
      * Allocates a new {@code String} containing characters constructed from
-     * an array of 8-bit integer values. Each character <i>c</i>in the
+     * an array of 8-bit integer values. Each character <i>c</i> in the
      * resulting string is constructed from the corresponding component
      * <i>b</i> in the byte array such that:
      *