To unicode or not to unicode

[Ron Garret]

I'm writing a little wiki that I call µWiki.  That's a lowercase Greek 
mu at the beginning (it's pronounced micro-wiki).  It's working, except 
that I can't actually enter the name of the wiki into the wiki itself 
because the default unicode encoding on my Python installation is 
"ascii".  So I'm trying to decide on a course of action.  There seem to 
be three possibilities:

1.  Change the code to properly support unicode.  Preliminary 
investigations indicate that this is going to be a colossal pain in the 
ass.

2.  Change the default encoding on my Python installation to be latin-1 
or UTF8.  The disadvantage to this is that no one else will be able to 
run my code without making the same change to their installation, since 
you can't change default encodings once Python has started.

3.  Punt and spell it 'uwiki' instead.

I'm feeling indecisive so I thought I'd ask other people's opinion.  
What should I do?

rg