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chongli | karma 21313 | avg karma 3.6 · 2017-06-19 02:18:22+00:00

Python 2.7 (byte) strings handle Japanese characters just fine for a lot of cases.

Python 2.7 was released in 2010, 15 years after the release of Ruby. At the time of Ruby's release, you were looking at Python 1.0.

masklinn | karma 65147 | avg karma 3.36 · 2017-06-19 05:14:48

And Python 1.0 handled text (in general) in the exact same way Ruby did: by ignoring it altogether and just manipulating bags of bytes.