Jérome: slightly adjusted manually to just use range where it does not
make a significant difference (for example in test)

also str representation of unicode character is different.

Co-authored-by: Carlos Ramos Carreño <carlos.ramos@nexedi.com>
Co-authored-by: Emmeline Vouriot <emmeline.vouriot@nexedi.com>
Co-authored-by: Kazuhiko SHIOZAKI <kazuhiko@nexedi.com>