non-ascii UTF8 characters don't work in user names

[jpeach]

Attempt to create a user:

james:
  user.present:
    - fullname: 'James Hedström'

This will fail with a serialization error. It would be very helpful is salt fully supported UTF8.

[basepi]

Yes, there's an existing issue with the way msgpack deals with (or, in this case, doesn't deal with) unicode: #3436

There's little we can do until msgpack fixes its unicode issues. =\

[jpeach]

I read most of the really depressing msgpack thread and they are never going to fix this. I think that it's important for salt to have unicode support, so you really should consider working around it in some way.