I'm against making magic "unicode" strings with unspecified encoding and then forcing everything to use these strings. The idea behind “Unicode” strings is that they are not encoded at all (so much ...

I'm trying to get Python's ncurses module to display extended ASCII characters, similar to those found here. I've written a little test program to try and output these characters, but I'm having ...

As far as I'm concerned, it is silly to claim that Python's Unicode strings are “strictly not better” than byte sequences when it is possible, in Python 3, to open a text file using the built-in open( ...