Summary

A customer may ask if Jira Align supports UTF-8 characters like Å Æ Ç È
which are commonly used in non-English alphabets when encountering text formatting issues.

Quick answer is: yes both Jira Align and the Jira Connector do.

Solution

Jira Align DOES support UTF-8 characters

Jira Connector DOES support UTF-8 characters

UTF-8 is the most common character encoding method used on the internet and is the default character set for HTML5.

It includes the common English characters eg AaBb, numbers and more.
Examples:

À	Á	Â	Ã	Ä	Å	Æ	Ç	È	É	Ê	Ë	Ì	Í	Î	Ï	Ð	Ñ	Ò	Ó	Ô	Õ	Ö	×	Ø	Ù	Ú	Û	Ü