Unicode Support =============== If you use `RedPipe.pipeline` objects directly, you are writing raw bytes into redis and reading them out. Go down a higher level of abstraction in the Keyspaces, and all keys and values are unicode characters stored as utf-8 bytes in redis. When we read the bytes out of redis we decode them back into strings in python. Python 3 is much pickier about this. Python 2 doesn't force you to think about it and often does the right thing, but can be error prone. I'm no expert at unicode or character encoding so if you see a bug let me know and I'll try to fix it. Still working on more tests in this area. Why not make all of the data utf-8 compliant? There are some operations, like redis DUMP and redis RESTORE where the binary data shouldn't be decoded as unicode. It's a raw binary data representation. In other cases you may decide to pickle objects and store them in redis. *RedPipe* should be able to support all of this. This part of the library is less mature than other aspects of the code. Use at your own risk. Please report any `issues `_.