Nikolay Nikolov: > Modern FPC versions should support UTF-8 output for the > IDE. I made a patch for this, that was included in fpc > 2.4.2 IIRC. Which FPC version are you using and on which > linux distro/version? What is the value of the LANG envi- > ronment variable? I am using FPC 2.4.4 on Puppy Linux. LANG=en_US. Anton