I'm going to disagree for a different reason. The transition to Python 3 improved unicode support in some respects, but utterly gutted the previously excellent codec support. Now you can't really handle arbitrary source/destination encodings of text without treating everything as if they were bytes. Really bad.

On Fri, Apr 25, 2014 at 1:54 AM, Travis Cardwell <travis.cardwell@extellisys.com> wrote:

On 2014年04月25日 15:34, Niklas Haas wrote:
> FWIW, python's support for Unicode in its standard library is
> significantly better than Haskell's. Haskell fails on basic functions
> such as ‘toUpper’, ‘length’ or ‘==’.

I have to humbly disagree. Python does indeed have great Unicode support,
but using Unicode for everything is not efficient in cases where it is not
needed. With Haskell, one can use bytestring [1] and text [2] as
necessary to have more control over how content is processed. Both
packages are in Haskell Platform, the equivalent of Python's standard library.

Cheers,

Travis

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[1] http://hackage.haskell.org/package/bytestring
[2] http://hackage.haskell.org/package/text

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