correct, this is not a problem for new users or users without unicode keyphrases but don't know how many e.g. chinese users we have now using chinese symbols as keyphrase.
anyway, i am finishing apphub now. it was already planed to include unicode into hive and apphub is part of this.
Is it possible to postpone release a little so other AE client devs catch u?
it's already postponed because i need a little more time to test AE and include the DNA i mentioned before
but since i intend to start 1. march with hive my intension is to realease apphub latest end month, better
a week earlier.