Yes, so far, I believe that this exact string should replace every
invocation of .dumps() in python, and our case specifically. The way I
understand it, PHP and Python do what they do by default, in order to
protect ancient systems which do not like to read non-ascii values,
but I have to say that
Ingo -
As an FYI, once I started looking into this I found you had stumbled
into quite the can of worms. I just finished a pretty comprehensive
set of changes that will now allow proper handling of tombstones in
the Java client - https://github.com/basho/riak-java-client/pull/195
Sorry you had to
