Exception in pydoc

[Ricardo Aráoz]

I'm developing an in house app. Many coders here are not fluent in
english, so docstrings must be in Spanish in spite of recommendations
that docstrings better be in English.
When I use accented characters (in this case an 'ó') in my docstrings I
get :
>>> help('OpMejoraBizobj')
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<input>", line 1, in <module>
  File "C:\Python25\lib\site.py", line 346, in __call__
    return pydoc.help(*args, **kwds)
  File "C:\Python25\lib\pydoc.py", line 1645, in __call__
    self.help(request)
  File "C:\Python25\lib\pydoc.py", line 1687, in help
    elif request: doc(request, 'Help on %s:')
  File "C:\Python25\lib\pydoc.py", line 1481, in doc
    pager(title % desc + '\n\n' + text.document(object, name))
  File "C:\Python25\lib\pydoc.py", line 324, in document
    if inspect.ismodule(object): return self.docmodule(*args)
  File "C:\Python25\lib\pydoc.py", line 1072, in docmodule
    contents.append(self.document(value, key, name))
  File "C:\Python25\lib\pydoc.py", line 325, in document
    if inspect.isclass(object): return self.docclass(*args)
  File "C:\Python25\lib\pydoc.py", line 1208, in docclass
    contents = '\n'.join(contents)
UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc3 in position
115: ordinal not in range(128)

The file's first two lines are :
"""
#!/usr/bin/env python
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
"""

Does pydoc only deal with ASCII?