[daGrevis]

If someone is wondering what's going on with unicode support:

> No unicode support is actually implemented. Python3 calls for strict difference between str and bytes data types (unlike Python2, which has neutral unified data type for strings and binary data, and separates out unicode data type). MicroPython faithfully implements str/bytes separation, but currently, underlying str implementation is the same as bytes. This means strings in MicroPython are not unicode, but 8-bit characters (fully binary-clean).

[maxerickson]

This was linked in a later post to the mailing list thread:

https://github.com/micropython/micropython/issues/657

They plan on improving the Unicode support.