Comment 3 for bug 792638

The crash is from backends\common\utils.py

Simulating from python command line:
>>> import md5
>>> hash = md5.new()
>>> passwd = u'\xe9'
>>> print passwd
é
>>> print passwd[0]
é
>>> hash.update(passwd)
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xe9' in position 0: ordinal not in range(128)

But this works:
>>> passwd="één"
>>> hash.update(passwd)
>>> print passwd
één
>>> print passwd[0]

>>> print passwd[1]
�
>>> print passwd[2]

>>> print passwd[3]
�
>>> print passwd[4]
n