Unintuitive Python Behavior
Curious about the Google App Engine, I started playing with it, which meant writing code in Python.
Unicode support in Python seems to be a tangle of confusing function names, source code file encodings, backslash escapes, the letter "u" before strings, and probably other things. Together, this smells to me like the language originally didn't support Unicode, but wanted to keep backward compatibility with pre-unicode support scripts.
