It doesn't seem to handle Unicode very well, or your normalization routines need love. I have several German words in my topic list, and Umlauts get chopped out

It doesn't seem to handle Unicode very well, or your normalization routines need love. I have several German words in my topic list, and Umlauts get chopped out, for example the infamous "Blumenkübel" becomes "Blumenkbel", "für" becomes "fr", and so on.