Issue #6595: Allow Decimal constructor to accept non-European decimal
digits, as recommended by the specification. (Backport of r74279 from
py3k.)
diff --git a/Doc/library/decimal.rst b/Doc/library/decimal.rst
index 53caff8..ee87023 100644
--- a/Doc/library/decimal.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/decimal.rst
@@ -330,6 +330,12 @@
numeric-value ::= decimal-part [exponent-part] | infinity
numeric-string ::= [sign] numeric-value | [sign] nan
+ If *value* is a unicode string then other Unicode decimal digits
+ are also permitted where ``digit`` appears above. These include
+ decimal digits from various other alphabets (for example,
+ Arabic-Indic and Devanāgarī digits) along with the fullwidth digits
+ ``u'\uff10'`` through ``u'\uff19'``.
+
If *value* is a :class:`tuple`, it should have three components, a sign
(:const:`0` for positive or :const:`1` for negative), a :class:`tuple` of
digits, and an integer exponent. For example, ``Decimal((0, (1, 4, 1, 4), -3))``