Cannot find word with accent

[Van Tassell, Kristian]

I'm trying to find documents with this word:

général

It returns one hit for a document containing "General".

If I search for g*ral I get 230 hits, of which some contain the word général.

I'm not sure where to begin looking, I believe everything is encoded correctly. 
The text_fr (French) fieldType configuration is essentially a boilerplate one 
from the Solr distribution.

Thanks in advance for any insight!
-Kristian