The future package can be used with or without unicode_literals imports. In general, it is more compelling to use unicode_literals when back-porting new or existing Python 3 code to Python 2/3 than ...

For example, the emoji🌍 has a Unicode code point of 127757, and its UTF-8 encoding involves multiple bytes (240 in this case). This project is a basic demonstration of working with Unicode and UTF-8 ...