diff --git a/simplejson/decoder.py b/simplejson/decoder.py
index 78cf346f1b0bfa78060de51c26d7c98466e028a6_c2ltcGxlanNvbi9kZWNvZGVyLnB5..0fe327bd94b196e9c2f0e92b7a4ed34d77a7559e_c2ltcGxlanNvbi9kZWNvZGVyLnB5 100644
--- a/simplejson/decoder.py
+++ b/simplejson/decoder.py
@@ -281,7 +281,7 @@
     +---------------+-------------------+
     | array         | list              |
     +---------------+-------------------+
-    | string        | unicode           |
+    | string        | str, unicode      |
     +---------------+-------------------+
     | number (int)  | int, long         |
     +---------------+-------------------+