diff --git a/Doc/library/codecs.rst b/Doc/library/codecs.rst
index 1971136..780760f 100644
--- a/Doc/library/codecs.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/codecs.rst
@@ -1114,9 +1114,9 @@ particular, the following variants typically exist:
 +-----------------+--------------------------------+--------------------------------+
 | utf_16          | U16, utf16                     | all languages                  |
 +-----------------+--------------------------------+--------------------------------+
-| utf_16_be       | UTF-16BE                       | all languages (BMP only)       |
+| utf_16_be       | UTF-16BE                       | all languages                  |
 +-----------------+--------------------------------+--------------------------------+
-| utf_16_le       | UTF-16LE                       | all languages (BMP only)       |
+| utf_16_le       | UTF-16LE                       | all languages                  |
 +-----------------+--------------------------------+--------------------------------+
 | utf_7           | U7, unicode-1-1-utf-7          | all languages                  |
 +-----------------+--------------------------------+--------------------------------+