allow utf8 characters in git commit messages

[jobevers]

Fixes #13

[msabramo]

Hmmm, I'm not seeing a problem when using git master. I did a commit with a Unicode snowman (U+2603) in the commit message:

[marca@marca-mac2 smbot2]$ git log -1 --oneline
84a40df Add ☃

[marca@marca-mac2 smbot2]$ rm -rf debian; make-deb && cat debian/rules
'debian' directory successfully placed at the root of your repository
#!/usr/bin/make -f

%:
    dh $@ --with python-virtualenv%

Am I not doing the right thing to reproduce the issue?

[msabramo]

OK, I reproduced it by removing 662c6aa, which worked around the problem.

I like this better. I would vote for reverting 662c6aa and merging this PR.

[jobevers]

Any update on this?