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diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/2.6.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/2.6.rst
index b10c48d..ea330bb 100644
--- a/Doc/whatsnew/2.6.rst
+++ b/Doc/whatsnew/2.6.rst
@@ -736,7 +736,13 @@ There's also a ``__future__`` import that causes all string literals
to become Unicode strings. This means that ``\u`` escape sequences
can be used to include Unicode characters.
-XXX give example
+ from __future__ import unicode_literals
+
+ s = ('\u751f\u3080\u304e\u3000\u751f\u3054'
+ '\u3081\u3000\u751f\u305f\u307e\u3054')
+
+ print len(s) # 12 Unicode characters
+
.. seealso::