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.

sitecustomize.py

@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+"""
+This file sets the default encoding for the codebase to
+UTF-8 instead of ascii. This allows for just about any
+language to be used in-game.
+
+It is not advisable to change the value set below, as
+there will be a lot of encoding errors that result in
+server crashes.
+"""
+import sys
+sys.setdefaultencoding('utf-8')

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)