[ jEdit-users ] Special accented characters keep getting replaced with gibberish

[J R. <ja...@ru...>]

Using jEdit on Win7.
 
When I add text strings with international characters (i.e. german, spanish), the file will complile, display, close, re-open correctly.
Then after a random while, I reopen the file to find all special characters are now replaced with a pair of other special (but seemingly unrelated) characters.  Now the compiled includes this gibberish.
 
Just latest example, today I open a file with acute e's (é), but find jEdit has replaced all "é"s with "é"s.
 
What is going on and how do I configure jEdit to stop obliterating special chars? Thx
 
 

Javier Ruiz
ja...@ru...
707.955.5557