> Learning is not a waste of time. You're entitled to your opinion, but this is not a bug in logging. We'll have to agree to disagree.

I agree and value learning a great deal. However learning should happen on your own time, NOT when a program crashes randomly and tries taking you down the rabbit hole. I like learning but not about unrelated things when I'm trying to do useful work.

Fine, if you don't consider this a bug, consider it a feature request. "User would like Python logging of Unicode characters to be consistent" is not an unreasonable request.