Several non English publishers have complained to me time and again that activeRenderer wasn't rendering accented Latin characters properly, especially when run under MacOS. They're right of course, but I've deferred solving this complex issue as much as I could, having little use of French or German publishing myself at the time.

Well, time changes, and now that I'm browsing my RSS feeds through activeRenderer's outlined browser on my new Powerbook, reading French and German news sources has become a pain. Back to the drawing board :-)

As a first step, the next release of activeRenderer will convert all Windows Latin encoded characters to their Mac equivalent when run under MacOS, and all entity encoded characters in the XML content will be decoded properly, or so I hope :-)

This may offset the release date by a couple of days however, so it might be Friday instead of Wednesday.