remove all implicit unicode encoding/decoding

Registered by Martin Pool

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/bazaar-ng/2006q2/010943.html

Jan suggests a way to disable all implicit transformation to/from unicode. We can use this to eliminate all code that relies on default ascii/utf-8 conversions.

This will get a number of false positives at first due to ascii literals in the Python source.

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