RPM changed the way it handles UTF-8:
See https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1693751
RPM python3 bindings now return ALL string data as surrogate-escaped utf-8 string objects
This causes breaking changes in fedora-review and fedpkg.
Already reported in pyrpkg.
Metadata Update from @eclipseo: - Issue close_status updated to: Invalid - Issue status updated to: Closed (was: Open)