diff --git a/Doc/library/re.rst b/Doc/library/re.rst
index 7d8920169207fd..1f42cd28e65ec5 100644
--- a/Doc/library/re.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/re.rst
@@ -419,7 +419,8 @@ The special characters are:
    +---------------------------------------+----------------------------------+
 
    .. deprecated:: 3.11
-      Group names containing non-ASCII characters in bytes patterns.
+      Group *name* containing characters outside the ASCII range
+      (``b'\x00'``-``b'\x7f'``) in :class:`bytes` patterns.
 
 .. index:: single: (?P=; in regular expressions
 
@@ -495,6 +496,8 @@ The special characters are:
 
    .. deprecated:: 3.11
       Group *id* containing anything except ASCII digits.
+      Group *name* containing characters outside the ASCII range
+      (``b'\x00'``-``b'\x7f'``) in :class:`bytes` replacement strings.
 
 
 The special sequences consist of ``'\'`` and a character from the list below.
@@ -1016,7 +1019,8 @@ Functions
 
    .. deprecated:: 3.11
       Group *id* containing anything except ASCII digits.
-      Group names containing non-ASCII characters in bytes replacement strings.
+      Group *name* containing characters outside the ASCII range
+      (``b'\x00'``-``b'\x7f'``) in :class:`bytes` replacement strings.
 
 
 .. function:: subn(pattern, repl, string, count=0, flags=0)