[Plugin: NextGEN Gallery] UTF-8 characters in meta fields

UT8-encoded characters display incorrectly in meta field
Example: in the Copyright field, Müller appears as Müller

I believe this is caused by applying utf8_encode to values that are already in UTF-8 encoding:

meta.php:248

foreach ($iptcTags as $key => $value) {
	if (isset ( $this->iptc_data[$key] ) )
		$meta[$value] = trim(utf8_encode(implode(", ", $this->iptc_data[$key])));

}

Is there any reason for that?

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/nextgen-gallery/