Unicode program representation

[Neil Hodgson]

    François writes,

> Instead of writing:
>
>    u"hi ?"
>
> which is indeed a way to write Unicode strings using 7-bits, or even
8-bits
> in a Latin-1 environment, you might write:
>
>    unicode("hi ?")

   OK. That's not too painful.

   But then, what role do you see the u" form having?

   Neil