Article on the future of Python

[Ian Kelly]

On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 1:23 AM, Steven D'Aprano
<steve+comp.lang.python at pearwood.info> wrote:
> On Tue, 25 Sep 2012 23:35:39 -0700, wxjmfauth wrote:
>
>> Py 3.3 succeeded to somehow kill unicode and it has been transformed
>> into an "American" product for "American" users.
>
> For the first time in Python's history, Python on 32-bit systems handles
> strings containing Supplementary Multilingual Plane characters correctly,
> and it does so without doubling or quadrupling the amount of memory every
> single string takes up.

Indeed.  Here's an interesting article about Unicode handling that
identifies Python 3.3 as one of only four programming languages that
handle Unicode correctly (the other three being Bash, Haskell 98, and
Scheme R6RS).

http://unspecified.wordpress.com/2012/04/19/the-importance-of-language-level-abstract-unicode-strings/