I think fully supporting unicode strings would require a lot of effort, more so on the C++ client libraries. Sadly not a solution, but for now the recommendation of just sticking to ascii strings would prevent the issues mentioned in the the second and third bullets affecting user code. --- [Visit Topic](https://discourse.ros.org/t/python3-and-strings/2392/8) or reply to this email to respond. If you do not want to receive messages from ros-users please use the unsubscribe link below. If you use the one above, you will stop all of ros-users from receiving updates. ______________________________________________________________________________ ros-users mailing list ros-users@lists.ros.org http://lists.ros.org/mailman/listinfo/ros-users Unsubscribe: