New internal string format in 3.3

[Roy Smith]

In article <mailman.3538.1345442498.4697.python-list at python.org>,
 Michael Torrie <torriem at gmail.com> wrote:

> Python generally tries to follow unicode
> encoding rules to the letter.  Thus if a piece of text cannot be
> represented in the character set of the terminal, then Python will
> properly err out.  Other languages you have tried, likely fudge it
> somehow.  

And if you want the "fudge it somehow" behavior (which is often very 
useful!), there's always http://pypi.python.org/pypi/Unidecode/