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diff --git a/docs/narr/traversal.rst b/docs/narr/traversal.rst index d77667355..9ff7329c5 100644 --- a/docs/narr/traversal.rst +++ b/docs/narr/traversal.rst @@ -285,14 +285,10 @@ context object implied by the current request. Unicode and Traversal --------------------- -By default, the traversal machinery by default attempts to decode each -path element in ``PATH_INFO`` from its natural byte string (``str`` -type) representation into Unicode using the UTF-8 encoding before -passing it to the ``__getitem__`` of a model object. If any path -segment in ``PATH_INFO`` is not decodeable using the UTF-8 decoding, a -TypeError is raised. - -The option named ``unicode_path_segments`` in -:ref:`environment_chapter` provides a mechanism that will disable this -behavior, causing traversal to pass path segments as plain byte string -objects to all model ``__getitem__`` methods. +The traversal machinery by default attempts to decode each path +element in ``PATH_INFO`` from its natural byte string (``str`` type) +representation into Unicode using the UTF-8 encoding before passing it +to the ``__getitem__`` of a model object. If any path segment in +``PATH_INFO`` is not decodeable using the UTF-8 decoding, a TypeError +is raised. + |