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Re:Numpy: Plan for dropping Python 2.7 support by OOPMan on Thursday November 16, 2017 @01:12PM (#15714993)
Let's be honest, A lot of peoples experience with Python is restricted to the North America.

For these folks encountering anything other than ASCII is pretty uncommon.

Personally, I've worked on a Python 2.x project deployed in heavy industry across the globe including Japan and the number of times we had Python 2 unicode nightmare issues was too many to mention.

Re:Numpy: Plan for dropping Python 2.7 support by pvg on Thursday November 16, 2017 @01:30PM (#15715185)
For these folks encountering anything other than ASCII is pretty uncommon.

Hmmm... [THINKING FACE (U+1F914)]