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Because developers from cultures whose languages can be fully satisfied with the Latin-1 charset (which is the absolute majority in the developed world) don't g

by kozak 10y ago

Because developers from cultures whose languages can be fully satisfied with the Latin-1 charset (which is the absolute majority in the developed world) don't get how important and essential Unicode is. But things are changing to better now, thankfully.

itamarst 10y ago
Python 2 had full Unicode support.
- kozak 10y ago
  It was "full", but not "proper".
- tedmiston 10y ago
  Yes, but not without effort the way it is in Python 3. Having to prefix strings with "u" and include the utf-8 encoding header sometimes are definitely nuisances in Python 2.
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