International characters with in_place_editor

I’ve been going through Recipe 1 of the “Rails Recipes” book by Chad
Fowler.
In-place editing is working just fine but I’ve noticed that the
textboxes
now won’t let me introduce letters with accents, as in “café”. Is there
some
way to work around this problem? I guess I could go into the javascript
to
find that particular input validation but I wanted to ask first if
anyone
has ran into this particular problem before.

I’ve also noticed that if I use Alt+130 the character “é” appears and is
stored correctly to the database.

Thanks in advance!.