From d1b25a64c21bd3649122dc991badf635e00dd2ae Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jon Dufresne <jon.dufresne@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 4 Oct 2018 06:10:20 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] [2.1.x] Refs #27778 -- Removed "The database API" section
 from "Unicode data" docs.

Support for passing bytestrings to the database API was removed in
301de774c21d055e9e5a7073e5bffdb52bc71079.
Backport of f5d9ee11a2c76ba1cf7e3424d15286da121a004b from master
---
 docs/ref/unicode.txt | 10 ----------
 1 file changed, 10 deletions(-)

diff --git a/docs/ref/unicode.txt b/docs/ref/unicode.txt
index 5961b3d960c..0b0282b1cc5 100644
--- a/docs/ref/unicode.txt
+++ b/docs/ref/unicode.txt
@@ -257,16 +257,6 @@ non-ASCII characters would have been removed in quoting in the first line.)
 
 .. _above: `URI and IRI handling`_
 
-The database API
-================
-
-You can pass either strings or UTF-8 bytestrings as arguments to
-``filter()`` methods and the like in the database API. The following two
-querysets are identical::
-
-    qs = People.objects.filter(name__contains='Å')
-    qs = People.objects.filter(name__contains=b'\xc3\x85') # UTF-8 encoding of Å
-
 Templates
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