Clarify what happens when passing a Unicode string to compile().

Based on MvL's comment from 2005-02-09 in SF bug # 1115379.
2006-03-23 05:25:38 +00:00 · 2006-03-23 05:25:38 +00:00 · 996935cc16
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--- a/pep-0263.txt
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@ -202,6 +202,9 @@ Implementation
    input. 8-bit string input is subject to the standard procedure for
    encoding detection as described above.

+    If a Unicode string with a coding declaration is passed to compile(),
+    a SyntaxError will be raised.
+
    SUZUKI Hisao is working on a patch; see [2] for details. A patch
    implementing only phase 1 is available at [1].