ensure write_manifest passes contents to write_file as unicode strings.

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ignore .git* files
test_sdist: change the latin1 test to match the behavior of write_manifest
Improved comment in the latin1 sdist test.
Merge changes from Pull Request 50
Backed out changeset: 1ceaffff2d9b (restoring b0a2fcc5275a). Ref #193

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Merge in test changes from previous try

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with_statements and output utf-8 output

*Since py2.5 has been dropped, we can use future imports to
make use of with statements.

*End goal was to always decode to utf-8 in write_file on 307

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Starting a unicode_utils module.

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In corporate the old unicode with the spirit of what the FileList updating.

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Merge 4 out of 5 commits from Philip Thiem's unicode_try_2. Ref #193