Comment by n1ghtm4n

> What happens when you take a slice of a string?

What happens when you slice a unicode string in Go is that it cuts multi-byte characters right in half, unless you get the byte boundaries just right. I know real programmers keep the byte boundaries for all the chars in all their strings in their head at all times, but for people like me this basically makes string slicing unusable for non-ASCII text.

Python somehow magically slices unicode strings without chopping characters in half.

In Python:

    s = "нєℓℓσ"
    s[1:4]  # "єℓℓ"

In Go:

    s[1:4] // "�є"