Schedule A version 2 and unicode fix

[esonderegger]

• Please check if the PR includes the following

• [ ] Tests for the changes have been added (if applicable)

• [ ] Docs have been added / updated (if applicable)

• What kind of change does this PR introduce? (Bug fix, feature, docs update, ...)

• What is the current behavior? (You can also link to an open issue here)

• What is the new behavior (if this is a feature change)?

• Does this PR introduce a breaking change? (What changes might users need to make in their application due to this PR?)

• Other information:

[drewmcdonald]

Hi @esonderegger! Sorry to make you spelunk through forks to find this fix. Let me know if I can be helpful, and thanks for your work on this!