[TxMt] Problem converting markdown pre-blocks with accented characters

As a new user, I'm venturing a first question.

I'm using embedded pre-blocks in markdown for simple tables. I'm spacing the columns with tabs. When a word in a column has an accented character the number of generated spaces in the conversion to html is wrong. See the example below.

Before conversion:

<pre> Fitié <tab> NextWord Fitie <tab> NextWord </pre>

After conversion:

<pre> Fitié <space> <space> NextWord Fitie <space> <space> <space> NextWord </pre>

When the word has one accented character 2 spaces are generated in this case, otherwise there are 3 spaces. Something to do with UTF-8 encoding?

-- Bert Fitié