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diff --git a/lib/sqlalchemy/dialects/mysql/base.py b/lib/sqlalchemy/dialects/mysql/base.py
index a74b20ac4..131112ff4 100644
--- a/lib/sqlalchemy/dialects/mysql/base.py
+++ b/lib/sqlalchemy/dialects/mysql/base.py
@@ -159,8 +159,10 @@ in the URL, such as::
test?charset=utf8")
Whether or not the DBAPI handles the job of encoding and decoding is determined
-by passing the ``use_unicode`` parameter. For example, to disable
-unicode conversion by the DBAPI and let SQLAlchemy handle it::
+by passing the ``use_unicode`` parameter, supported by MySQLdb and PyMySQL
+and possibly others.
+For example, to disable unicode conversion by the DBAPI and let
+SQLAlchemy handle it::
e = create_engine("mysql+pymysql://scott:tiger@localhost/\
test?charset=utf8&use_uncode=0")