When I try to create bug with utf8 string I get error:

$ be new 'utf8 string'
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/be", line 64, in <module>
    sys.exit(cmdutil.execute(args[0], args[1:]))
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/libbe/cmdutil.py", line 82, in execute
    manipulate_encodings=manipulate_encodings)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/becommands/new.py", line 54, in execute
    bug = bd.new_bug(summary=summary.strip())
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/libbe/bugdir.py", line 584, in new_bug
    bg.save()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/libbe/bug.py", line 388, in save
    self.save_settings()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/libbe/bug.py", line 373, in save_settings
    mapfile.map_save(self.vcs, path, self._get_saved_settings())
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/libbe/mapfile.py", line 110, in map_save
    vcs.set_file_contents(path, contents, allow_no_vcs)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/libbe/vcs.py", line 354, in set_file_contents
    f.write(contents)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/codecs.py", line 686, in write
    return self.writer.write(data)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/codecs.py", line 351, in write
    data, consumed = self.encode(object, self.errors)
UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xd0 in position 95: ordinal not in range(128)
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$ python
Python 2.6.1 (r261:67515, Jan  8 2010, 16:07:38)
[GCC 4.3.2] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import sys
>>> import locale
>>> sys.getdefaultencoding()
'ascii'
>>> locale.getdefaultlocale()
('ru_RU', 'UTF-8')

I think it is more correct to use UTF-8 everywhere or use locale.getdefaultlocale() instead sys.getdefaultencoding().