The easiest thing would be just to default unicode_semantics to On 
internally and hide it from users. Don't remove all the UG(unicode) 
checks yet, because we can test migration/compatibility with those in place.

-Andrei

Derick Rethans wrote:
>  On Wed, 7 May 2008, Andi Gutmans wrote:
>  
> > Yep, we said that we'd remove the switch. Then we'd see how 
> > compatibility fairs and if we discover the upgrade path is too painful 
> > we'd consider making "" be binary string and require u"" for Unicode 
> > strings. But this was TBD depending on people's experiences and our 
> > ability to deliver an easy migration path for applications. So for now 
> > we should remove the switch. We can do this if needed.
>  
>  Scott is already working on this AFAIK. And like Andrei, I'd also be 
>  against defaulting to binary strings.
>  
>  regards,
>  Derick
>  

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