[MERGE] Make annotate behave in a non-ASCII world

[Aaron Bentley]

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Goffredo Baroncelli wrote:
> this class returns always an unicode string. If the string passed to this 
> wrapper is an internal bazaar [meta]data (as user name or path which are 
> unicode string), the data are stored "as is". If the data is a string, the 
> data are _decoded_ with the selected encoding, then it is stored. 
> 
> Any thougts

I think this is backwards.  You frequently don't know what the encoding
of your data is, e.g. with patches.  An even if you do know, it may vary.

It's much saner to turn unicode into the terminal encoding, which we
always do know.

Aaron
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