diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 604c0df48a3..2b05c00f5cd 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -279,6 +279,9 @@ Core and Builtins
   step. This avoids problems with counting UTF-8 bytes that ignores the effect
   of using the replace error handler in PyUnicode_DecodeUTF8().
 
+- Issue #3739: The unicode-internal encoder now reports the number of characters
+  consumed like any other encoder (instead of the number of bytes).
+
 Library
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