On: A Programmer’s Introduction to Unicode

[srean]

Aha ! thanks for the anecdote. My situation is indeed very similar, and yeah Python is involved, but that's not where I would put the blame.

[doubleunplussed → srean]

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.

[srean → doubleunplussed]

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.