Rusi: "unicode as a medium is universal in the same way that ASCII used to be"
Probably, you do not realize deeply how this sentence is correct. Unicode and ascii are constructed in the same way. It has not even to do with "characters", but with mathematics. It is on this level the FSR fails. It is mathematically wrong by design! jmf -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list