DeVault: Announcing the Hare programming language

I mean, it's a complex set of trade-offs. To consider the Python approach, we'd have to untangle a pretty large can of worms having to do with string handling. We can't just lift surrogateescape wholesale - Python and Hare have very different goals and we have to think carefully through every implication of such a change so that the language remains consistent and reliable in its design throughout. And yes, it's an inelegant solution - and we prefer the elegant ones.