> You shouldn't be using list on raw unicode strings. Why? I am using list only to show what are the values of s[0] and s[1]. What I am saying is that it retu

> You shouldn't be using list on raw unicode strings. Why? I am using list only to show what are the values of s[0] and s[1]. What I am saying is that it returns the list of characters of the underlying representation, so a list of wide chars (possibly surrogate) if compiled with UTF16 or a list of 32bit characters if compiled with UTF16. Are you suggesting that all the string processing (including iteration) should be done on a str encoded in UTF8 instead of using the native unicode type?