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Of bytes and encoded strings

Unicode/UTF-8 support appeared in Tcl/Tk 8.1, which came out in April 1999, i.e., nearly 15 years ago. It is worth noting that Unicode in Tcl worked quite well pretty much from the point when it was ...

Python 3.15 goes global with UTF-8 support

Today all the cool languages and runtimes pledge allegiance to UTF-8, including Rust, Go, and Node.js (JavaScript itself prefers UTF-16 for internal encoding). Most code editors, from Visual Studio ...
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Python 3.15 arrives with lazy imports, UTF-8 by default and a faster JIT

Python 3.15 is out with explicit lazy imports, UTF-8 as the default encoding, frozendict and sentinel types, the Tachyon ...
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Of bytes and encoded strings

I wouldn't be so quick to claim that there are never character set or encoding related bugs in Perl or Tcl applications as a direct result of DWIM not always doing the _right_ thing. Perhaps not ...