Fix unicode handling in filter metadata match

src/filter.py

@@ -236,8 +236,12 @@ class Filter(object):
         metadata = self._client_dest.stream_get_metadata(self.dest.path)
         if not self.force_metadata:
             for key in data:
-                wanted = str(data[key])
+                wanted = data[key]
                 val = metadata.get(key, wanted)
+                # Force UTF-8 encoding for comparison and display
+                wanted = wanted.encode('utf-8')
+                val = val.encode('utf-8')
+                key = key.encode('utf-8')
                 if val != wanted and self.dest.rows > 0:
                     m =  "Metadata in destination stream:\n"
                     m += "  %s = %s\n" % (key, val)

src/prep.py

@@ -80,7 +80,7 @@ def main(argv = None):
     f.check_dest_metadata({ "prep_raw_source": f.src.path,
                             "prep_sinefit_source": sinefit.path,
                             "prep_column": args.column,
-                            "prep_rotation": rotation })
+                            "prep_rotation": repr(rotation) })
 
     # Run the processing function on all data
     f.process_numpy(process, args = (client_sinefit, sinefit.path, args.column,