I am working on postscript files that were generated from Word. I was changing some font in Inkscape but the kerning was all wrong. I thought "I'll try Illustrator, it will do a better job". So I open the file in Ilustrator and the accented characters were gone. I tried again with a PDF file, now the accented characters were upper cased. Postcript and PDF are both Adobe technology, I just can't believe Illustrator importer is crap!