[sambeau]

Who would create a language that only has ASCII strings in this day and age?

[tasty_freeze]

Here is the quote of the thing you are referring to:

> Codon currently uses ASCII strings unlike Python's unicode strings.

Note the word "currently." Implementing this while also tracking the constantly evolving Python language through its various versions is a lot of work. They apparently prioritizing other things over this particular aspect.

[naasking]

Someone who's just trying to get something up and running. Unicode is complicated.