[docs] [issue26369] unicode.decode and str.encode are unnecessarily confusing for non-ascii

[Ben Spiller]

Ben Spiller added the comment:

yes the situation is loads better in python 3, this issue is specific to 2.x, but like many people sadly we're not able to move to 3 for the time being. 

Since making this mistake is quite common and there's some sensible behaviour that would make it disappear (resulting in ascii and non-ascii strings being treated the same way by these methods) I'd much prefer if we could actually fix it for python 2.7

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