Searching for European accented characters

Question

"Provided it is an encoding Agent Ransack understands"

I enter accented letters with the ALT key and the decimal ANSI value on the numeric keyboard. I have been doing this for years. ALT 0233 gives an e acute

I'm going to do it here now é Look! It works fine. But Agent Ransack reports Not Found for Café entered in the "Containing text" box, when I know it is in the file.

How can I get Agent Ransack to find é ä ù and so on?

Answer 1

If you're searching through text files check the encoding of the files. Here's an example using your text with encoding UTF-8 (with BOM):