@@ -217,7 +217,7 @@ To help understand the standard, Jukka Korpela has written `an introductory
guide <https://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/unicode/guide.html>`_ to reading the
Unicode character tables.
Another `good introductory article <http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/Unicode.html>`_
Another `good introductory article <https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2003/10/08/the-absolute-minimum-every-software-developer-absolutely-positively-must-know-about-unicode-and-character-sets-no-excuses/>`_
was written by Joel Spolsky.
If this introduction didn't make things clear to you, you should try
reading this alternate article before continuing.
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@@ -487,7 +487,7 @@ References
Some good alternative discussions of Python's Unicode support are:
* `Processing Text Files in Python 3 <http://python-notes.curiousefficiency.org/en/latest/python3/text_file_processing.html>`_, by Nick Coghlan.
* `Pragmatic Unicode <http://nedbatchelder.com/text/unipain.html>`_, a PyCon 2012 presentation by Ned Batchelder.
* `Pragmatic Unicode <https://nedbatchelder.com/text/unipain.html>`_, a PyCon 2012 presentation by Ned Batchelder.
The :class:`str` type is described in the Python library reference at