Let's be honest, A lot of peoples experience with Python is restricted to the North America. For these folks encountering anything other than ASCII is pretty u

Let's be honest, A lot of peoples experience with Python is restricted to the North America. For these folks encountering anything other than ASCII is pretty uncommon. Personally, I've worked on a Python 2.x project deployed in heavy industry across the globe including Japan and the number of times we had Python 2 unicode nightmare issues was too many to mention.