On Feb 15, 2012, at 04:46 PM, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
[1] When this damned term is over in a few weeks, I'll take a look at the tutorial-level docs and see if I can come up with a gentle approach for those who are finding out for the first time that the locale-dependent default isn't good enough for them.
I really hope you do this, but note that it would be very helpful to have guidelines and recommendations even for advanced, knowledgeable Python developers. I have participated in many discussions in various forums with other Python developers where genuine differences of opinion or experience, leads to different solutions. It would be very helpful to point to a document and say "here are the best practices for your [application|library] as recommended by core Python experts in Unicode handling." Cheers, -Barry