Unicode in Python

[Ian Kelly]

On Apr 26, 2014 3:46 AM, "Frank Millman" <frank at chagford.com> wrote:
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> <wxjmfauth at gmail.com> wrote in message
> news:03bb12d8-93be-4ef6-94ae-4a02789aea2d at googlegroups.com...
> > ==========
> >
> > I wrote once 90 % of Python 2 apps (a generic term) supposed to
> > process text, strings are not working.
> >
> > In Python 3, that's 100 %. It is somehow only by chance, apps may
> > give the illusion they are properly working.
> >
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> It is quite frustrating when you make these statements without explaining
> what you mean by 'not working'.

As far as anybody has been able to determine, what jmf means by "not
working" is  that strings containing the € character are handled less
efficiently than strings that do not contain it in certain contrived test
cases.
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