Most languages that support Unicode strings generally operate at the Unicode scalar level, and don't provide the same affordance for operating on a string as a collection of grapheme clusters. In ...

For example, u"Hello World".encode('utf-8') will encode the Unicode string using UTF-8 encoding, which is the most common encoding on the web. Always specify the encoding to ensure compatibility ...

This is a request to add a string literal syntax using paired Unicode delimiters, perhaps and , for use in non-standard string literal macros. This is proposed as an alternative complementary to, but ...

I need a function that will convert any string into unicode; that supports things like letters with accents and whatnot.I might have my terminology wrong ...

I should add that a very large number of developers I've met (and taught) who use Python 2 are unaware that byte strings even exist. It's much more common to talk about them in Python 3, where they ...