I a using the the HTML encode special characters in Sublime text to convert all the special character into their HTML code. I have a lot of accented characters in different
I recently wrote a plugin dedicated to highlighting non-ascii characters: https://github.com/TuureKaunisto/highlight-dodgy-chars
The exactly same functionality can be achieved with Highlighter but with the less generic Highlight Dodgy Chars plugin you don't need to write a regular expression, you can just list the non-ascii characters you don't wish to highlight in the settings. The European special characters are whitelisted by default.