#16127: remove outdated references to narrow builds.  Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
diff --git a/Doc/c-api/unicode.rst b/Doc/c-api/unicode.rst
index 0f7d2bb..2ac51df 100644
--- a/Doc/c-api/unicode.rst
+++ b/Doc/c-api/unicode.rst
@@ -1083,8 +1083,6 @@
    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.
-
    If *byteorder* is *NULL*, the codec starts in native order mode.
 
    Return *NULL* if an exception was raised by the codec.
diff --git a/Doc/reference/lexical_analysis.rst b/Doc/reference/lexical_analysis.rst
index bab39f9..94f219b 100644
--- a/Doc/reference/lexical_analysis.rst
+++ b/Doc/reference/lexical_analysis.rst
@@ -538,9 +538,7 @@
    this escape sequence.  Exactly four hex digits are required.
 
 (6)
-   Any Unicode character can be encoded this way, but characters outside the Basic
-   Multilingual Plane (BMP) will be encoded using a surrogate pair if Python is
-   compiled to use 16-bit code units (the default).  Exactly eight hex digits
+   Any Unicode character can be encoded this way.  Exactly eight hex digits
    are required.