Yelp/mrjob — pull request #472 by irskep (2012-06-04 19:24:41+00:00)
Title: Allow unicode in counter/status msg names

Fixes #320.

`MRJob.increment_counter()` and `MRJob.set_status()` will now write output as UTF-8 if any of their parameters' type is `unicode`. This behavior maintains backward compatibility while providing a workaround for people with encoding issues.