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I was using user tasks successfully on NB 3.5.1. Then I installed NB 3.6dev and copied the tasklist.ics to the NB 3.6dev userdir. Now I cannot see UTF-8 characters. The are replaced with squares.
There was a bug in 3.5.1 version. The files were written not in utf8. It is corrected now. You have to reenter the tasks.
nb 4.1 is out