How Python does Unicode
Unicode is a horrible scam, the worst thing to happen to digital language representation.  This is all just so much <i>turd polishing</i>.<p>(Also, that explanation of UTF-8 is crap.  UTF-8 is <i>beautiful</i> quite apart from its utility, but you&#x27;d hardly know it from the article.)<p>I&#x27;ve said it before: Unicode is a conflation of a good idea and an impossible idea.  The good idea is a standard mapping from numbers to little pictures.  That&#x27;s all ASCII was.  The impossible idea is a digital code for <i>every way humans write</i>.  It&#x27;s a form of digital cultural imperialism.<p>Unicode Consortium et. al. are absurdly arrogant.