Pyhon 2.x or 3.x, which is faster?

[Jon Ribbens]

On 2016-03-09, Chris Angelico <rosuav at gmail.com> wrote:
> Then *get interested*. Unicode is the only way that you'll ever not be
> parochially bound to a subset of English - or, worse, bound to an
> arbitrary eight-bit codepage that you don't even control the choice
> of, such that your program behaves differently on different systems.
> FIX YOUR LANGUAGE and support non-English text.

You can't even support English text properly without Unicode.
Plenty of English words use non-ASCII characters:
café, crêpe, façade, naïve, dæmon, etc.