#16127: remove outdated references to narrow builds.  Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
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.