unidecode broken on Intel Macs?

[Mark Smith]

Part of the trouble is that Revs Unicode handling doesn't include any  
ability to use Byte-Order Marks (BOM). These are pairs of bytes at  
the start of a unicode string that expresses the byte order of the  
string that follows. Rev simply assumes that the byte-order is that  
of whatever processor it's running on, regardless of where the string  
may have come from.

Best,

Mark