Accented characters in menu?

[lem9]

(By the way, thanks for iPXE).

Yes I have followed these instructions. I am using this:

console --x 640 --y 480 --picture http://example.com/coin_cegep_640x480.png --left 0 --right 0 --top 0 --bottom 0
colour --rgb 0xffff00 3
colour --rgb 0x006b28 2
colour --rgb 0x00214a 5
cpair --foreground 5 1
menu Selectionner le type de demarrage

My menu title is displayed with the appropriate colours. However when my script generates the text "Sélectionner" instead, I correctly see the "é", but only this character has the wrong colours.