#6930: clarify description about byteorder handling in UTF decoder routines.
diff --git a/Doc/c-api/unicode.rst b/Doc/c-api/unicode.rst
index 1249ed7..4ab1c21 100644
--- a/Doc/c-api/unicode.rst
+++ b/Doc/c-api/unicode.rst
@@ -414,10 +414,13 @@
*byteorder == 0: native order
*byteorder == 1: big endian
- and then switches if the first four bytes of the input data are a byte order mark
- (BOM) and the specified byte order is native order. This BOM is not copied into
- the resulting Unicode string. After completion, *\*byteorder* is set to the
- current byte order at the end of input data.
+ If ``*byteorder`` is zero, and the first four bytes of the input data are a
+ byte order mark (BOM), the decoder switches to this byte order and the BOM is
+ not copied into the resulting Unicode string. If ``*byteorder`` is ``-1`` or
+ ``1``, any byte order mark is copied to the output.
+
+ After completion, *\*byteorder* is set to the current byte order at the end
+ of input data.
In a narrow build codepoints outside the BMP will be decoded as surrogate pairs.
@@ -442,8 +445,7 @@
.. cfunction:: PyObject* PyUnicode_EncodeUTF32(const Py_UNICODE *s, Py_ssize_t size, const char *errors, int byteorder)
Return a Python bytes object holding the UTF-32 encoded value of the Unicode
- data in *s*. If *byteorder* is not ``0``, output is written according to the
- following byte order::
+ data in *s*. Output is written according to the following byte order::
byteorder == -1: little endian
byteorder == 0: native byte order (writes a BOM mark)
@@ -487,10 +489,14 @@
*byteorder == 0: native order
*byteorder == 1: big endian
- and then switches if the first two bytes of the input data are a byte order mark
- (BOM) and the specified byte order is native order. This BOM is not copied into
- the resulting Unicode string. After completion, *\*byteorder* is set to the
- current byte order at the.
+ If ``*byteorder`` is zero, and the first two bytes of the input data are a
+ byte order mark (BOM), the decoder switches to this byte order and the BOM is
+ not copied into the resulting Unicode string. If ``*byteorder`` is ``-1`` or
+ ``1``, any byte order mark is copied to the output (where it will result in
+ either a ``\ufeff`` or a ``\ufffe`` character).
+
+ After completion, *\*byteorder* is set to the current byte order at the end
+ of input data.
If *byteorder* is *NULL*, the codec starts in native order mode.
@@ -520,8 +526,7 @@
.. cfunction:: PyObject* PyUnicode_EncodeUTF16(const Py_UNICODE *s, Py_ssize_t size, const char *errors, int byteorder)
Return a Python string object holding the UTF-16 encoded value of the Unicode
- data in *s*. If *byteorder* is not ``0``, output is written according to the
- following byte order::
+ data in *s*. Output is written according to the following byte order::
byteorder == -1: little endian
byteorder == 0: native byte order (writes a BOM mark)