In Python 3.x, byte strings and Unicode strings are separate data types, and it's important to be explicit when working with bytes to avoid encoding errors. Add your perspective ...

Python uses Unicode by default, so you can write anything you want. Let's see an example: € (Euro symbol) ASCII (limited characters) shows a weird character because it can't represent Euro.

UNICODE objects under Python 2.7 causing issues. deserialize_script on unicode dictionary objects (from bitcoin-rpc) returns no error but completely corrupted data ...

I'm experiencing issues with Unicode normalization in Python 3.10. When handling Unicode strings that contain combining characters or other characters that should be normalized, the normalization ...

Exceptions, Python’s error-handling mechanism, have received many new features in Python 3.11: ... Dictionaries where all keys are Unicode no longer need to store hashes, ...

Issue description Under Windows / Python 3.11 I'm seeing an Unicode related exception at a point where pipenv is trying to print status to the console (presumably). UnicodeEncodeError: 'charmap' codec ...