Everything you did not want to know about Unicode in Python 3

[Roy Smith]

In article <mailman.9939.1399961928.18130.python-list at python.org>,
 Chris Angelico <rosuav at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, May 13, 2014 at 4:03 PM, Ben Finney <ben at benfinney.id.au> wrote:
> > (It's always a good day to remind people that the rest of the world
> > exists.)
> 
> Ironic that this should come up in a discussion on Unicode, given that
> Unicode's fundamental purpose is to welcome that whole rest of the
> world instead of yelling "LALALALALA America is everything" and
> pretending that ASCII, or Latin-1, or something, is all you need.

ASCII *is* all I need.  The problem is, it's not all that other people 
need, and I need to interact with those other people.