YDA-5829: Unicode landing page comparison

publication_troubleshoot.py

@@ -205,9 +205,11 @@ def compare_local_remote_landingpage(ctx, file_path, url, offline, api_call):
         return False
 
     # Set encoding to utf-8 for the response text (otherwise will not match local_data)
+    # response.text is then returned as unicode
     response.encoding = 'utf-8'
+    local_data_uni = local_data.decode("utf-8")
 
-    if local_data == response.text:
+    if local_data_uni == response.text:
         return True
 
     log.write(ctx, "compare_local_remote_landingpage: File contents at irods path <{}> and remote landing page <{}> do not match.".format(file_path, url), write_stdout)