freeradius passwords with accents

Unsure if this has been approached before and where to troubleshoot.
I have some European users who have accents (é) in there passwords when these get passed through freeradius it fails. Searching within freeradius people are saying it is UTF compliant so should support the characters, I see an old article about nspmPassword and ldap module having problems with freeradius 1.0.5 http://lists.freeradius.org/pipermai...ay/009173.html. I'm using FreeRadius 2.0 on openSUSE 11.2. Anyone have any experience in trying to resolve ?

Thanks

Steve