diff --git a/NEWS.md b/NEWS.md
index b2f128e7..dd36ca55 100644
--- a/NEWS.md
+++ b/NEWS.md
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 
 - Add early bytecodes: 1.0, 1.1, 1.2, and 1.6. Going off of pycdc bytecode since this is the only bytecode for these versions I know of
 - Fix bug in Python 3.x decompiling 2.x that contains strings with non-ascii characters
-- More generally, better handling of non-ascii Python 2 strings in Python 3
+- More generally, better handling of non-ascii Python 2 strings in both input and output in Python 3
 
 4.0.4 2019-10-02
 ================
diff --git a/xdis/verify.py b/xdis/verify.py
index 0333dcd1..e4ac74b6 100644
--- a/xdis/verify.py
+++ b/xdis/verify.py
@@ -117,7 +117,7 @@ def verify_file(real_source_filename, real_bytecode_filename):
     if not os.path.exists(real_source_filename):
         return
 
-    if PYTHON_VERSION < 3.6:
+    if PYTHON_VERSION < 3.5:
         f = open(real_source_filename, 'U')
     else:
         f = open(real_source_filename, newline=None, errors='backslashreplace')