Just to note, in my case, those accented characters showed up as the <A-with
a tilde><odd symbol> form for me in any post from Dante, and Richard
Grevers' reply that quoted tarquin's quote thereof... yet it showed fine in
all others (including tarquin's). (I use OE 6, with security set to maximum
and 'Read all messages as plain text' set.)
--Jake