As far as supported characters... I think it supports pretty much everything. I'm sure German is supported 100% since the software is made by a German company, haha.I think, it isn't pretty sure. Using an ä or an é isn't planned by English scripts. But all code languages and systems are English. As a German programmer you have to do a lot of tricks, using strings or sth.. F.e.: file names with ä (does an translating for "umlaut" really exist..?) or with spaces don't work well. Try it...