Python 3.15 goes global with UTF-8 support

Today all the cool languages and runtimes pledge allegiance to UTF-8, including Rust, Go, and Node.js (JavaScript itself prefers UTF-16 for internal encoding). Most code editors, from Visual Studio ...
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Bytes, Characters and Python 2

Moving from Python 2 to 3? Here's what you need to know about strings and their role in in your upgrade. An old joke asks "What do you call someone who speaks three languages? Trilingual. Two ...

Designing 'Same Characters' in Unicode: Separating Original Text and Search Keys in Python

The name looks the same on the screen, but I can't search for it.' If you try to fix this problem just by removing whitespace ...

Can't read CSV even in Python 3.15? Practice specifying character encoding

"I updated Python, but I can't read Japanese CSV files." When you open a file you've received and see a string of English ...