Set the default encoding to UTF-8. UTF-8 support in new codebases is pretty much expected, especially given that MUX/MUSH now have excellent support. This should alleviate some of those encoding errors, and allows us to get rid of that ascii error checker in session.py.

src/session.py

@@ -78,12 +78,6 @@ class SessionProtocol(StatefulTelnetProtocol):
         Any line return indicates a command for the purpose of a MUD. So we take
         the user input and pass it to this session's pobject.
         """
-        try: 
-            test = u"%s" % data
-        except UnicodeDecodeError:
-            self.msg("Couldn't parse that - one or more characters were not recognized.")
-            return 
-        
         if self.pobject:
             # Session is logged in, run through the normal object execution.
             self.pobject.execute_cmd(data, session=self)