Created attachment 1627 [details]
Screenshot showing crippled characters in the overlay area

Here's a screenshot showing MusicInfoSCR with ARTIST in all four corners. Sin�ad's accented � is crippled in the overlay area. Same problem in other fonts.

There's no difference between the line and overlay as far as the conversion to bitmaps is concerned.

So is this a general encoding problem - what does the following look like?
$parts = {
   'line'    => [ $problemString, undef ],
   'overlay' => [ undef, $problemString ],
};

OK - I'll have a look!

Fixed!  r10265 and 10266.  I think that has been there for a long time - good find. 

Thanks!