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Re:A Programmer’s Introduction to Unicode by doubleunplussed on Friday March 10, 2017 @10:25AM (#13839245)
Oh, I'm not saying Python is to blame in any sense, rather, that the core devs had the same problem as you and hit on a neat solution.
Re:A Programmer’s Introduction to Unicode by srean on Monday March 13, 2017 @02:26AM (#13855653)
Oh ! sorry never thought you were saying Python was the source of the problem.

Since Python happened to be a common feature common between our two scenarios, wanted to caution other HN'ers not to put blame on Python. In my case Python was indeed doing the right thing.