diff --git a/Doc/api/concrete.tex b/Doc/api/concrete.tex
index 40b178f..f1fbccb 100644
--- a/Doc/api/concrete.tex
+++ b/Doc/api/concrete.tex
@@ -1001,21 +1001,14 @@
                                                       const char *errors}
   Coerce an encoded object \var{obj} to an Unicode object and return a
   reference with incremented refcount.
+  
+  String and other char buffer compatible objects are decoded
+  according to the given encoding and using the error handling
+  defined by errors.  Both can be \NULL{} to have the interface
+  use the default values (see the next section for details).
 
-  Coercion is done in the following way:
-
-\begin{enumerate}
-\item  Unicode objects are passed back as-is with incremented
-       refcount. \note{These cannot be decoded; passing a non-\NULL{}
-       value for encoding will result in a \exception{TypeError}.}
-
-\item String and other char buffer compatible objects are decoded
-      according to the given encoding and using the error handling
-      defined by errors.  Both can be \NULL{} to have the interface
-      use the default values (see the next section for details).
-
-\item All other objects cause an exception.
-\end{enumerate}
+  All other objects, including Unicode objects, cause a
+  \exception{TypeError} to be set.
 
   The API returns \NULL{} if there was an error.  The caller is
   responsible for decref'ing the returned objects.