Incorrect display of special characters encoded in ISO 8859-1

[fthebaud]

Special characters (i.e. non ascii) encoded in ISO 8859-1 are incorrectly displayed in the todo-show panel:

[mrodalgaard]

What characters are these? Please paste them here, so I can reproduce. What font type are your editor / theme using?

I tried with some different extended characters below, but they all render fine.

[fthebaud]

The encoding needs to be ISO 8859-1 (I see your file is in UTF-8), and the "what to search" needs to be set to project or workspace (a search in open files or active files works fine).
Here is an example of two characters that don't work : à é

I have logged a similar issue with the "find-and-replace" package, it might be the same problem ?
atom/find-and-replace#741

[mrodalgaard]

Ahh, I see. Well I am 95% sure that this is the same problem as find-and-replace, since it uses the same mechanism to scan the project for a regular expression. This is a bug that needs to be fixed on Atom core, so posting an issue on the find-and-replace repo is the way to go. Well done @fthebaud.