does/will python support unicode?

[Remco Gerlich]

François Pinard wrote in comp.lang.python:
> Absolutely false.  Unicode has lost its virginity for good, since a good
> while.  Unicode is only simple for the simplest charsets it tries to be
> compatible with.  (Even mere ASCII is causing some unexpected trouble...)

Do you have some good URLs about this and other discussions on Unicode in
general? I've never used it yet, and I'd like to learn more about it. All I
know now is that it's a 16-bit charset that Java uses...

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Remco Gerlich,  scarblac at pino.selwerd.nl
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