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		yjftsjthsd-h on Jan 14, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Mercurial’s journey to and reflections on Python 3 > the world is Unicode. Get over it. Maybe not bytes on disk/network. But apart from that? Yes So, just ignoring the 2 things that a version control system exists to work with directly?

raverbashing on Jan 14, 2020 [–]

You're ignoring the parts where they have several hardcoded byte/unicode strings.

Otherwise just convert to and from when saving and sending it to network

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