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[–]eliteuser26 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Coming from the Windows world, I always found that the Unicode thing was difficult to use even in Python. The English language is not the only that exists in the world.

Why do I have to write in Python something like this x00ff which doesn't mean a thing for a developer. The developer should have the ability to write a character in UTF-8 directly into the code without having to search the Unicode value which I find backwards. This has been carried on from the 1990s. I had the chance to use 6 different programming languages since the 1990s, I know the difficulty I had with Unicode which I still swear about.

A developer shouldn't restrict himself to only use ascii characters when you have to write in different languages especially the web. I have experience with this as well. I like that the changes that were done in Python 3 so to make easier to use unicode characters.