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On 04.06.2014 09:16, Chris Angelico wrote:
> The point is
> not that you might be able to get away with sticking your head in the
> sand and wishing Unicode would just go away. Even if you can, it's not
> something Python 3 can ever do.
>

Exactly. These endless discussions about different encodings start to 
get really boring. I cannot think of any aspect of it that hasn't been 
discussed here on several occasions, but as a fact:

"Strings are immutable sequences of Unicode code points" in Python3 
(https://docs.python.org/3/library/stdtypes.html?highlight=str#textseq) 
and this is not an implementation detail. So if any "implementation" 
doesn't stick to this convention, it is simply incomplete.

> And I don't think anybody can, anyway. If your device is big enough to
> hold Python, it should be big enough to handle Unicode; and then you
> don't have to say "Oh, sorry rest-of-the-world, this only works in
> English... and only a subset of English... and stuff".
>

Wolfgang