[pkscout]

thanks for getting on that so fast.
the new branch script throws an error when playing an artist with special chars and it still doesn't save anything.

OK, let's try this again. This code works properly on my OSX and Windows machines with Björk as an artist. I'm hoping this also fixes the Windows username issue, as it turns out one of the problems relates to the fact that you can't write to the XBMC log in UTF-8. So I had to make sure to re-encode any text string before writing it out.

Here's the updated test code for the non-ascii character issue. If we can get this one resolved, I'll merge it into master and do another pull request into the repo (which will also include the notification fixes then).