Hope I did not miss it and this has already been noted somewhere: Should you have any issues with non-standard characters and character encoding (as I did in my German language forum with ???? and the like), this may be of use to you:
In the plugin "Title_Replace" at hook "url_to_bbcode"
find:
PHP Code:
return "[url=\"" . $text[2] . $text[4] . "\"]" . preg_replace("/\&.+\;/", '', $title[1]) . "[/url]";
add before:
PHP Code:
$title[1] = utf8_decode($title[1]);
Simple, but effective