My favorite author on the subject of Unicode is Mark Pilgram in his book Dive in to Python 3 (it's relevant for any language): http://diveintopython3.org/strin

My favorite author on the subject of Unicode is Mark Pilgram in his book Dive in to Python 3 (it's relevant for any language): http://diveintopython3.org/strings.html http://diveintopython3.org/strings.html "Some Boring Stuff You Need To Understand Before You Can Dive In."