mythnettv can't handle apostrephy

When trying to import a local file with an apostrephy in the description, mythnettv crashes and gives the following error. I tried the description both with quotes and no quotes, failing both times.

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/share/mythnettv/mythnettv", line 637, in <module>
    main(sys.argv)
  File "/usr/share/mythnettv/mythnettv", line 386, in main
    prog.FromInteractive(url, title, subtitle, description)
  File "/usr/share/mythnettv/program.py", line 140, in FromInteractive
    self.Store()
  File "/usr/share/mythnettv/program.py", line 200, in Store
    raise e
database.FormatException: Could not format string value description = "Sarah’s obsession with the three dots may pay off, and Weaver introduces Ellison to someone very important." ('ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xe2 in position 6: ordinal not in range(128))

From the forums, this has also been a confirmed problem when subscribing to feeds, indicating that mythnettv can't handle apostrephies at all.