No this is not a plug UKIP's immigration policy. :-) This is to assist James fixing the issue that some of us have trying to use foreign typographic characters in our posts. OK here goes.
James I have saved the text of this post in a UTF8 text file and can send it to you if the post does not appear correctly. The following text should consist of six lines each ending of a non-ASCII character.
should read lc e accute: é
should read lc e grave: è
should read pound sign: £
should read Euro sign: €
should read lc cedilla; ç
should read lc umlaut: ü