[Plugin: NextGEN Gallery] Problem when creating an album with Unicode name

UPDATE:
Hmm, looks like I got it. It seems that the plugin fails to encode Unicode names properly. The problem I was mentioning was mainly happening because of the improperly encoded (1) directory names and (2) DB paths that the plugin generates when creating an album using the name you originally set. Accessing the gallery directory via FTP I was seeing folders with names like:
%d8%aa%d8%ac%d8%b1%d9%88%d8%a8%d8%a9
and so the paths were configured inside ngg_gallery table in DB. I’ve just tried to test that with an album. I’ve directly renamed its folder and manually changed its path in DB using an Arabic name, and viola! all of the album photos become accessible.

By the way, the same thing is applicable when uploading photos. The plugin improperly encodes any non-ASCII characters using characters like %xx1, etc, so the photo/album becomes inaccessible.

Okay, I see that there is actually a warning message when creating a new album:

Allowed characters for file and folder names are: a-z, A-Z, 0-9, -, _ )

but this is really silly. A robust plugin must not depend on users to not do a simple mistake like this. Also, it makes no sense to make users unable to create albums with Unicode labels for the directory name sake. The plugin can generate a name with random hash or whatever to use for the directory in case it was unable to use the user input, and keeps the Unicode name for the label that site guests see. At least, the plugin must check the name that was entered before creating a useless album that cannot be used at all.