hello,
i have the same problem and found an "external" solution.
i use "EditPad Lite" a free text editor (google it for website)
in the editor window :
- menu "convert"
 - Text encoding
 select "unicode, UTF-8"
 OK 
paste your text : copyright © 2009 - Le Café - èôéç
- menu "convert" - "text ...
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- Tue Sep 15, 2009 4:14 am
 - Forum: Advanced Find and Replace
 - Topic: AFR don't find UTF-8 characters in UTF-8 Files without BOM !
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