é showing up as &eacute in TextEdit
&amp;eacute; is one of the HTML forms of é and when &amp;eacute; is pasted as plain text... No, TextEdit will not convert it to é.

Either copy from a source that show it as é or use the Find and Replace... command in TextEdit to find &amp;eacute; and replace it with é.



As a side note, &amp;#233; and &amp;#xE9; also represent é in HTML.