As far as I'm concerned, it is silly to claim that Python's Unicode strings are “strictly not better” than byte sequences when it is possible, in Python 3, to open a text file using the built-in open( ...

See, the letter "I" is actually a Turkish dotless-i and so I expect "i" to capitalize to "İ" Perhaps I'm missing something, but this does not appear to be the case: $ echo "Is this correct?" | hd ...