When adding media via the commandline, UTF8 characters in either --title or --description cause a UnicodeDecodeError:

(mediagoblin)[gmg@dichromate mediagoblin]$ gmg addmedia moggers87 doge.png --title "test ß"
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/gmg/mediagoblin/bin/gmg", line 9, in <module>
    load_entry_point('mediagoblin==0.7.0', 'console_scripts', 'gmg')()
  File "/home/gmg/mediagoblin/mediagoblin/gmg_commands/__init__.py", line 124, in main_cli
    args.func(args)
  File "/home/gmg/mediagoblin/mediagoblin/gmg_commands/addmedia.py", line 95, in addmedia
    title=maybe_unicodeify(args.title),
  File "/home/gmg/mediagoblin/mediagoblin/gmg_commands/addmedia.py", line 88, in maybe_unicodeify
    return unicode(some_string)
UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc3 in position 5: ordinal not in range(128)

The cause of this error is in the maybe_unicodify method ​here. Python 2 defaults to decoding strings to Unicode as ASCII - simply adding "utf8" as the second argument will solve this issue.

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