> (which is the absolute majority of the developed world) I'm a German writing web apps using Django, and I constantly got UnicodeDecodeErrors when mingling wi

> (which is the absolute majority of the developed world) I'm a German writing web apps using Django, and I constantly got UnicodeDecodeErrors when mingling with older browsers, uploads from Windows users, copy-pasted content from word processors etc. The problem isn't (only) whether Latin-1 has all the characters, it's what encoding gets thrown at your software. Python 3 was a blessing for handling user-provided input.