How is unicode implemented behind the scenes?

[Rustom Mody]

On Sunday, March 9, 2014 8:20:49 AM UTC+5:30, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> No version of Python has, to my knowledge, used UTF-8 internally. Some 
> other languages, such as Go and Haskell, do, and consequently string 
> processing is slow for them.

Haskell: Its more like: "Heres the menu, take your pick"
http://blog.ezyang.com/2010/08/strings-in-haskell/