On 2016-03-09, Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com> wrote: > Then *get interested*. Unicode is the only way that you'll ever not be > parochially bound to a subset of English - or, worse, bound to an > arbitrary eight-bit codepage that you don't even control the choice > of, such that your program behaves differently on different systems. > FIX YOUR LANGUAGE and support non-English text.
You can't even support English text properly without Unicode. Plenty of English words use non-ASCII characters: café, crêpe, façade, naïve, dæmon, etc. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
