On Sunday, March 9, 2014 8:20:49 AM UTC+5:30, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > No version of Python has, to my knowledge, used UTF-8 internally. Some > other languages, such as Go and Haskell, do, and consequently string > processing is slow for them.
Haskell: Its more like: "Heres the menu, take your pick" http://blog.ezyang.com/2010/08/strings-in-haskell/ -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list