I suggest, in line 37 of the skinconfig-v07-1.dtd, to add these lines in order to admit accent in the skinconf.xml

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<!-- Include the Common ISO Character Entity Sets -->
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<!ENTITY % common-charents PUBLIC
    "-//APACHE//ENTITIES Common Character Entity Sets V1.0//EN"
    "common-charents-v10.mod">
%common-charents;
<!--
added by paul divine: end
-->



Paul