diff --git a/modules/juce_core/text/juce_String.cpp b/modules/juce_core/text/juce_String.cpp
index d9f8fea0f1..66d27733cb 100644
--- a/modules/juce_core/text/juce_String.cpp
+++ b/modules/juce_core/text/juce_String.cpp
@@ -313,6 +313,10 @@ String::String (const char* const t)
         you use UTF-8 with escape characters in your source code to represent extended characters,
         because there's no other way to represent these strings in a way that isn't dependent on
         the compiler, source code editor and platform.
+
+        Note that the Introjucer has a handy string literal generator utility that will convert
+        any unicode string to a valid C++ string literal, creating ascii escape sequences that will
+        work in any compiler.
     */
     jassert (t == nullptr || CharPointer_ASCII::isValidString (t, std::numeric_limits<int>::max()));
 }
@@ -332,6 +336,10 @@ String::String (const char* const t, const size_t maxChars)
         you use UTF-8 with escape characters in your source code to represent extended characters,
         because there's no other way to represent these strings in a way that isn't dependent on
         the compiler, source code editor and platform.
+
+        Note that the Introjucer has a handy string literal generator utility that will convert
+        any unicode string to a valid C++ string literal, creating ascii escape sequences that will
+        work in any compiler.
     */
     jassert (t == nullptr || CharPointer_ASCII::isValidString (t, (int) maxChars));
 }