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On 03/12/2013 04:32, Grant Edwards wrote:
> On 2013-12-03, Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> wrote:
>
>> "I believe that Pythonistas should commit themselves to achieving the
>> goal, before this decade is out, of making Python 3 the default version
>> and having everybody be cool with unicode."
>
> I'm cool with Unicode as long as it "just works" without me ever
> having to understand it and I can interact effortlessly with plain old
> ASCII files.  Evertime I start to read anything about Unicode with any
> technical detail at all, I start to get dizzy and bleed from the ears.
>

I'm pleased to see that I'm not the only one who suffers in this way :)

-- 
My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask 
what you can do for our language.

Mark Lawrence