Many Python 2 users (mostly English speakers, but also a few Europeans) are frustrated with the move of Python 3 to Unicode strings instead of ASCII strings.
One of the core Python developers, Nick Coghlan of Red Hat, has written an article for the Red Hat Developer Blog explaining why the core devs have made that major paradigm shift of text-as-ASCII-plus-bytes to text-as-Unicode: http://developerblog.redhat.com/2014/09/09/transition-to-multilingual-programming-python/ -- Steven -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
