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Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.python:30323

This flexible string representation is wrong by design.
Expecting to divide "Unicode" in chunks and to gain something
is an illusion.
It has been created by a computer scientist who thinks "bytes"
when on that field one has to think "bytes" and usage of the
characters at the same time.
The latin-1 chunk illustrates this wonderfully.

jmf