Escaped International characters?

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Published on 2010-03-28T13:16:46Z Indexed on 2010/03/28 13:23 UTC
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I am looking at some PHP code where there are translation strings. For French there are characters that I have never seen before and I am asking if someone could shed a light.

These strings are used as HTML output, but also as body text to send emails.

È = é
Ë = è
‡ = à
Í = ê
...

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