Fixed #11739 -- Made ContentFile support Unicode input

1 files changed, 8 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/docs/ref/files/file.txt b/docs/ref/files/file.txt
index 99547f1c9e..ada614df45 100644
--- a/docs/ref/files/file.txt
+++ b/docs/ref/files/file.txt
@@ -91,14 +91,18 @@ The ``ContentFile`` Class
 .. class:: ContentFile(File)
 
     The ``ContentFile`` class inherits from :class:`~django.core.files.File`,
-    but unlike :class:`~django.core.files.File` it operates on string content,
-    rather than an actual file. For example::
+    but unlike :class:`~django.core.files.File` it operates on string content
+    (bytes also supported), rather than an actual file. For example::
 
         from __future__ import unicode_literals
         from django.core.files.base import ContentFile
 
-        f1 = ContentFile(b"my string content")
-        f2 = ContentFile("my unicode content encoded as UTF-8".encode('UTF-8'))
+        f1 = ContentFile("esta sentencia está en español")
+        f2 = ContentFile(b"these are bytes")
+
+    .. versionchanged:: 1.5
+
+        ContentFile also accepts Unicode strings.
 
 .. currentmodule:: django.core.files.images