> But seriously, all what python (and as a matter of the fact majority of languages) is placing a clear distinction between a byte and a character. No, they ma

> But seriously, all what python (and as a matter of the fact majority of languages) is placing a clear distinction between a byte and a character. No, they make a clear distinction between bytes and code points. This is the wrong approach as code points are not characters. People are going to think that everything is fine now that they're using code points and the unicode type when they should be using a unicode library for text manipulation.