[Python-3000] String comparison

[Bill Janssen]

> But
> if someone didn't want normalization, and Python did it anyways, then
> there would be an error that passed silently.

Then they'd read it as bytes, and do the processing themselves
explicitly (actually, what I do).

> It's the unicode character versus code point issue.  I personally prefer
> code points, as a code point approach does exactly what I want it to do
> by default; nothing.  If it *does* something without me asking, then
> that would seem to be magic to me, and I'm a minimal magic kind of guy.

Strings are not code point sequences, which are available anyway for
people who want them as tuples of integer values.

Bill