Further reading

Python documentation:

• 🐍 What’s New In Python 3: Text Vs. Data Instead Of Unicode Vs. 8-bit

• 🐍 Unicode HOWTO

Articles:

• 🐍 Pragmatic Unicode - article, presentation and video

• 🐍 Section «Strings» of the book “Dive Into Python 3” - very well written about Unicode, encodings and how all this works in Python

Without binding to Python:

• The Absolute Minimum Every Software Developer Absolutely, Positively Must Know About Unicode and Character Sets (No Excuses!)

• The Unicode Consortium

• Unicode (Wikipedia)

• UTF-8 (Wikipedia)