wgrant@lptrusty:~$ python
Python 2.7.6 (default, Mar 22 2014, 22:59:38) 
[GCC 4.8.2] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import pygit2
>>> sig = pygit2.Signature(u'Владимир Владимирович Набоков'.encode('utf-8'), u'Набоко@zembla.ru'.encode('utf-8'))
>>> sig.name
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xd0 in position 0: ordinal not in range(128)
>>> sig = pygit2.Signature(u'Владимир Владимирович Набоков'.encode('utf-8'), u'Набоко@zembla.ru'.encode('utf-8'), encoding='utf-8')
>>> sig.name
u'\u0412\u043b\u0430\u0434\u0438\u043c\u0438\u0440 \u0412\u043b\u0430\u0434\u0438\u043c\u0438\u0440\u043e\u0432\u0438\u0447 \u041d\u0430\u0431\u043e\u043a\u043e\u0432'
>>> pygit2.__version__
'0.21.4'
>>>