[packagekit] Backend unicode improvements

[Luke Macken]

On Sun, Mar 16, 2008 at 10:52:23PM +0000, Richard Hughes wrote:
> On Sun, 2008-03-16 at 18:37 -0400, Luke Macken wrote:
> > Attached is patch that attempts to cleans up a lot of the unicode mess
> > in the yum/yum2 backends.
> 
> Dude, it looks like you know faaaaar more about this stuff than me, so
> if it works I guess it's good to merge. Thanks.

Heh, so I was extremely unicode-ignorant for a loooong time.  I hit up
the "Demystifying unicode" talk at PyCon yesterday, and now it all makes
sense ;)

> I'll be planning a release again on Friday so we'll have a whole week to
> repair any breakage.

I committed the patch, and pushed it up to master.

Thanks!

luke