German special characters not handled correctly.

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Reported by Dr. Hans Georg Richter (Jorgo)

I also used the DELTA-EDITOR to make a few changes in text comments (between 
angle brackets) in one of the items involving typical German odd characters 
like "ä"(aumlaut), "ö"(oumlaut), "ü"(uumlaut) and "ß" (used to circumscribe 
a sharp "s" after a long vowel).
ISSUE02: In the resulting ITEMS coded description these characters are not 
translated into the correct caracters, rather they appear as a sequence of 
characters. This problem has also been commented already in severals ISSUES in 
the sense that a universal character set is not implemented.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by chris.fl...@gmail.com on 11 Nov 2013 at 3:32