TABS - Error with special characters in fragment

TABS - Error with special characters in fragment


I am using the production (tag) version of Tabs 3. When I have a
fragment with a special character an exception is thrown when I click
the tab with the special character;
"uncaught exception: jQuery UI Tabs: Mismatching fragment
identifier."
Browser is Firefox 2 under Linux, although this was filed as a bug
report by a French translator who is using IE7.
The HTML is served in UTF-8 (<head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type"
content="text/html;charset=UTF-8" />...) , and is as follows;
<div id="tabs">
    <ul>
     <li><a href="mailing/setup.php" title="Configuration
Initiale"><span>Configuration Initiale</span></a></li>
     <li><a href="mailing/templates.php"
title="Templates"><span>Templates</span></a></li>
     <li><a href="mailing/compose.php" title="Compose"><span>Compose</
span></a></li>
     <li><a href="mailing/preview.php"
title="Pr�visualisation"><span>Pr�visualisation</span></a></li>
    </ul>
</div>
Is this behavior expected? Should I make a call to jQuery declaring
character encoding?
Thanks,
~ Brice