Diacritical marks and meta tags

[Karen G. Schneider]

I ran into an interesting problem with diacritical marks and meta tags.
We're beginning to use Dublin Core meta fields for our webpages, and last
week I was doing some one-on-one instruction with someone with a Spanish
name that has several acute-accented vowels.  HTML does have ways to
express these marks, of course, so we were just ducky when it came to the
webpages, but we were stumped by the META fields.  Should we use the
escaped HTML characters to write the name?  Should we write it in
Americanized English?  Should we repeat the field and do both?  What about
the abstract?  (We're planning bilingual abstracts.)  How are the meta
fields searched and displayed--raw, "webified," or (as I suspect)
both/either, depending?

Karen "I before E, except after Ampersand" Schneider
kgs at bluehighways.com