problem with unicode chars in filenames

[eratosthene]

Copied files over via ssh from Mac. When trying to run sync, get an exception on line 189 when it hits a unicode-named file:

185 for dirpath, dirnames, filenames in os.walk(basepath):
186 if len(filenames)>0:
187 rpath = dirpath[len(basepath+os.sep):].encode(encoding='UTF-8')
188 for filename in filenames:
189 fpath=os.path.join(rpath,filename.encode(encoding='UTF-8'))
190 apath = os.path.join(dirpath.encode(encoding='UTF-8'),filename.encode(encoding='UTF-8'))

[eratosthene]

Happens on line 187 also? And happens even with files that were synced with the sync process. Exception:
UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc3 in position 14: ordinal not in range(128)