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?
1) We already have a finished client for AE.....but it doesn't look pretty....also includes some fancy stuff.
2) The client should NOT be delayed further....if its working why not release version 1....version 1.1 can come at months end.