Micro Python -- a lean and efficient implementation of Python 3

[Paul Rubin]

Steven D'Aprano <steve at pearwood.info> writes:
>> Maybe there's a use-case for a microcontroller that works in ISO-8859-5
>> natively, thus using only eight bits per character, 
> That won't even make the Russians happy, since in Russia there are 
> multiple incompatible legacy encodings.

I've never understood why not use UTF-8 for everything.