Windows pyinotify implementation cannot deal with utf8

When working with a unicode path the following exception is raised:

C:\Users\Mandel\Documents\ubuntuone-client\irl>python ubuntuone-syncdaemon
2011-07-04 11:06:33,456:456.000089645 - ubuntu_sso.main.windows - DEBUG - SSOLog
in is <twisted.spread.pb.RemoteReference instance at 0x0336EDA0>
2011-07-04 11:06:33,463:463.000059128 - ubuntu_sso.main.windows - INFO - Perform
ing find_credentials as a remote call.
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Python27\lib\logging\handlers.py", line 77, in emit
    if self.shouldRollover(record):
  File "C:\Users\Mandel\Documents\ubuntuone-client\irl\ubuntuone\logger.py", lin
e 101, in shouldRollover
    msg = "%s\n" % self.format(record)
  File "C:\Python27\lib\logging\__init__.py", line 719, in format
    return fmt.format(record)
  File "C:\Python27\lib\logging\__init__.py", line 464, in format
    record.message = record.getMessage()
  File "C:\Python27\lib\logging\__init__.py", line 328, in getMessage
    msg = msg % self.args
  File "C:\Users\Mandel\Documents\ubuntuone-client\irl\ubuntuone\platform\window
s\pyinotify.py", line 240, in __str__
    return repr(self)
  File "C:\Users\Mandel\Documents\ubuntuone-client\irl\ubuntuone\platform\window
s\pyinotify.py", line 231, in __repr__
    output_format.field_value(value))
  File "C:\Users\Mandel\Documents\ubuntuone-client\irl\ubuntuone\platform\window
s\pyinotify.py", line 54, in field_value
    return self.simple(s, 'purple')
  File "C:\Users\Mandel\Documents\ubuntuone-client\irl\ubuntuone\platform\window
s\pyinotify.py", line 44, in simple
    s = str(s)
UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode characters in position 2-3: ordin
al not in range(128)