I too recall that the Sage library was supposed to be "7-bit clean" (I think Volker mentioned this on IRC once). But I see no problem with extending this to UTF-8 if need be, for example to allow authors to be credited when their names contain characters not found in ASCII. This is recommended by Python's PEP 3120, and UTF-8 will be the default encoding tried by Python when reading a .py file in 3.x. The default is currently ASCII in Sage's Python 2.6.4, though this is overridden to UTF-8 automatically if the file begins with a byte-order mark.
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