Array module fails handling utf-8 strings giving a  
SIGSEGV. Attached patch seems to do the trick... 
  
gdb> run   
(no debugging symbols found)   
(no debugging symbols found)   
[Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled]   
[New Thread -1480337216 (LWP 31303)]   
Python 2.4.2 (#1, Mar 20 2006, 12:08:06)   
[GCC 3.4.5] on linux2   
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for   
more information.   
>>> import array   
>>> x = array.array("u")   
>>> x.append(u"barış")   
Traceback (most recent call last):   
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?   
TypeError: array item must be unicode character   
>>> x.append("barış")   
>>> x   
   
Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.   
[Switching to Thread -1480337216 (LWP 31303)]   
Error while running hook_stop:   
Invalid type combination in ordering comparison.   
0xa7ee0799 in PyUnicodeUCS4_FromUnicode ()   
from /usr/lib/libpython2.4.so.1.0