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Because someone else reading "converting everything to UTF-32" might not be aware of the nuance. That's all.



I'm a casual user of Python 2, and I certainly didn't know this, so I appreciated the clarification.


Sorry for the snark but this has become a trigger for me. Every time anyone disagrees with the way Py3 does Unicode someone will immediately assume that that person is just confused about the implementation.




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