Unable to use accented characters

[GoogleCodeExporter]

What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Create a task
2. Enter locale characters like 'é'

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
Expected: Character 'é' in the task. Instead: Character is discarted.

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
r57 on Debian GNU/Linux 5.0.1 (lenny)

Please provide any additional information below.
% locale
LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8
LC_CTYPE="fr_FR.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="fr_FR.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="fr_FR.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE="fr_FR.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY="fr_FR.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="fr_FR.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER="fr_FR.UTF-8"
LC_NAME="fr_FR.UTF-8"
LC_ADDRESS="fr_FR.UTF-8"
LC_TELEPHONE="fr_FR.UTF-8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="fr_FR.UTF-8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="fr_FR.UTF-8"
LC_ALL=

Original issue reported on code.google.com by [email protected] on 12 Jun 2009 at 12:59