One thing perl provides is a few examples of how to handle utf-8 better than Python does. To put this another way, my 10-year-old perl-based web crawler did no

One thing perl provides is a few examples of how to handle utf-8 better than Python does. To put this another way, my 10-year-old perl-based web crawler did not have a problem crawling websites with umlauts in the hostname. Python is fixing supporting that new 2008 standard next year.