obsolete: explode if metadata contains invalid UTF-8 sequence (API) The current metadata API can be a source of bugs since it forces callers to process encoding conversion by themselves. So let's make it reject bad data as a last ditch. I assume there's no metadata field which is supposed to store arbitrary BLOB like transplant_source.

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# Avoid interference from actual test env:

unset HGTEST_JOBS
unset HGTEST_TIMEOUT
unset HGTEST_PORT
unset HGTEST_SHELL