in reply to Accented characters

Most likely, you have the command prompt FONT set to "Lucida Console". Change that to "Raster Fonts", and you are all set.

How to change the font:
Click on the top-left corner (or hit Alt-SPACE , then select PROPERTIES, and choose the FONT tab. Then select the font.

Update1:Oops - I cant get that to print correctly anymore. It DID, the first time.

Update2: This has to do with WIDE characters : chr(130) = é is beyond the normal ASCII character set. I do not have an explanation for the system behaviour yet.

Update3: Redirect STDOUT to a file, and view the contents in Notepad or other editor. Contents are shown correctly.

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