Cannot connect to WPA network with non-ascii password

In my office somebody thought it would be a good idea to encrypt the wireless network with a WPA password containing a non-ascii character. It is fine by the WPA2 standards, but the airport password prompt doesn't allow me to introduce suche characters.
I have also tried to put the password directly in Keychain but it didn't work either. Besides, I tried the /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/Apple80211.framework/Versions/Current/Resourc es/airport utility and it also didn't work.
Any ideas, experiences, comments??
Thanks a lot

Anyway, it seems strange to me this limitation the Apple airport utility and that there is no command line way to overcome this "UI problem".
It appears that OSX is enforcing WPA Personal's "no non-ASCII" rule, whereas Windows isn't.
There may be a command-line fix, but I don't know what it might be.

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