[Mead] summarizing french

[GARCIA FLORES Jorge 704360 IRSN]

Hi. In the French Atomic Energy Comission we would like 
to summarize french documents with MEAD. I wonder if ther's already a french 
version of the IDF database, or at least a way to summarize <docsent> 
documents with foreign characters (UTF-8 encoding)... right now its 
impossible to treat <docsent> documents with accented characters (MEAD 
produces an error). 

Thanks in advance for your answer

Jorge Garcia-Flores
Post-doc au CEA/IRSN
Centre de Fontenay-aux-Roses
Laboratoire d'Ingénierie de la Connaissance Multimédia Multilingue (LIC2M)
(Multimedia and Multilingual Knowledge Engineering Laboratory)
Bat. 38-2 ; 18, rue du Panorama ; BP 6
92265 Fontenay aux Roses Cedex ; France