[deathanatos]

> I don't know what's difficult about Unicode in Python 2 either, once you understand the difference between Unicode and UTF-8.

"once you understand the difference between Unicode and UTF-8" is what's difficult about Unicode in Python 2. I understand it, you might understand it, but I have to interop w/ and work w/ code written by people who do not. I'm not fool-proof either, so I greatly appreciate that the language makes a hard distinction now; doing the right thing by default is the point.

[suzuki]

I still use Python 2.7 and all I need with strings is UTF-8 byte string nowadays in Japan. If you read Japanese, read the following blog to know the current circumstances:

https://note.mu/ruiu/n/nc9d93a45c2ec

And note that Golang is getting popular in Japan, which uses UTF-8 byte strings solely. Python 2.7 with byte strings as default has a good chance to evolve into a more elegant language :-)