Templates with Unicode names

Question

Developing a Guidance package.

I have a solution template which includes this TemplateData element:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="Windows-1252"?>
<VSTemplate 
	Version="2.0" 
	Type="ProjectGroup"
	xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/developer/vstemplate/2005">
  
	<TemplateData>
		<Name>Módulos Presentación</Name>
		<Description>Solución para la creación de uno o más módulos PULSAR 3 de capa Presentación</Description>
		<ProjectType>CSharp</ProjectType>
		<SortOrder>90</SortOrder>
		<Icon>Evolutio.ico</Icon>
		<CreateNewFolder>false</CreateNewFolder>
		<DefaultName>Pulsar.Cliente.Mods</DefaultName>
		<ProvideDefaultName>true</ProvideDefaultName>
	</TemplateData>
  
	<TemplateContent>
		<ProjectCollection>
      <SolutionFolder Name="gral" />
      <SolutionFolder Name="spec">
        <SolutionFolder Name="mock" />
        <SolutionFolder Name="specs" />
        <SolutionFolder Name="tests" />
      </SolutionFolder>
      <SolutionFolder Name="src">
        <SolutionFolder Name="ui">
          <SolutionFolder Name="mod">
            <ProjectTemplateLink ProjectName="$ProjectName$">Projects\Mod\Mod.vstemplate</ProjectTemplateLink>
          </SolutionFolder>
        </SolutionFolder>
      </SolutionFolder>
		</ProjectCollection>
	</TemplateContent>
  
	<WizardExtension>
		<Assembly>Microsoft.Practices.RecipeFramework.VisualStudio, Version=1.2.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a</Assembly>
		<FullClassName>Microsoft.Practices.RecipeFramework.VisualStudio.Templates.UnfoldTemplate</FullClassName>
	</WizardExtension>

  <WizardData>
    <Template xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/pag/gax-template"
              SchemaVersion="1.0"
              Recipe="CrearSlnModsUi">
      <References>
      </References>
    </Template>
  </WizardData>
</VSTemplate>

  

This ends up showing in the New Project dialog as this: http://www.evolutio.com.ar/dev/gax-sln-template.png. 

(for those who can't see the picture, it shows the name as something similar to "Módulos Presentación", instead of "Módulos Presentación", and the description text is mangled as well).

I obviously know this is a problem with unicode de/encoding somewhere in the pipe, but have tried saving the xml/vstemplate files in UTF8, UTF16, UTF16 bigendian, charset 1251, and using the &#0162 entity, unregistering and registering the package each time, with no luck whatsoever.

What's the work-around? Is there any switch for specifying the package treatment of unicode strings? 

Can one use the <Name Package="{guid}" ID="id" /> format for GAX packages? where should then I define the resources?

Answer 1

Wow. Almost exactly 1 month after I find my own post searching in Google for a way to resolve the problem...

ANYONE??