Please make those individual package bugs that are specific to missing/broken UTF-8 support blockers of this one. It's not sure whether someone will work on it, but in case there are resources available to tackle unicodification, it's better here. References: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/unicode.html http://www.openi18n.org/subgroups/utildev/dli18npatch2.html
Reassign -- by default nobody's responsible of this mess.
Added more UTF-8 related bugs.