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

[Bert Fitié]

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