diff -r 54f6d8c4dfaf Doc/c-api/unicode.rst
--- a/Doc/c-api/unicode.rst	Sat Apr 06 20:31:26 2013 -0500
+++ b/Doc/c-api/unicode.rst	Sun Apr 07 00:23:53 2013 -0400
@@ -727,8 +727,11 @@
 
 .. c:function:: PyObject* PyUnicode_FromObject(PyObject *obj)
 
-   Shortcut for ``PyUnicode_FromEncodedObject(obj, NULL, "strict")`` which is used
-   throughout the interpreter whenever coercion to Unicode is needed.
+   Checks if the passed in object is already a Unicode object, and if so returns the 
+   reference with incremented refcount. Otherwise it coerces obj to a Unicode object 
+   and returns the reference.
+
+   Objects other than Unicode or its subtypes will cause a :exc:`TypeError`. 
 
 
 Locale Encoding