Unicode error with metadata that contains unicode strings

As reported here: http://forum.sourcefabric.org/index.php?t=rview&goto=12824#msg_12824

Successfully recreated problem. urlencode seems to be the problem function:

>>> urllib.urlencode({"name":u"ESPAÑO"})
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib.py", line 1282, in urlencode
    v = quote_plus(str(v))
UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\u0303' in position 5: ordinal not in range(128)


Seen in this example, it does not like taking a dictionary with unicode characters. The unicode needs to be encoded to utf-8 first.