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Problem with Greek encoding (and probably with other Eastern Europe languages)
Linux : Xubuntu 13 , Installed languages English, Greek. Everything works OK, even in a terminal window. I assume that installation is OK

Greek characters both in IDE and in a compiled program do not work at all

in Purebasic:

file-> preferences : you can only select a font
file-> file format --> encoding plain text : no luck
file-> file format --> encoding utf8. Greek works OK inside code window but not in the form design. Example caption of button code [..some greek] is OK. But in form design Button_0 Caption is [????]
Also when I doing back an forth from code to design, Greek letters disappear in code view too

In Compiler --> compiler options [create Unicode executable] has no effect
In file-> preferences Compiler defaults select source text encoding [Plain text | UTF-8] has no effect. Compile/Run --> program has no greek letters
That's all I have found...

any suggetions?

Well, certainly it's important that all files are saved as UTF-8 and that you use a unicode font that supports Greek.

It could be that the PB Form Designer does not support unicode, I don't know. That question requires a post in the Form Designer forum thread.

The IDE is ascii only, so the form designer as well. It should be sorted for 5.30, as it will be brings an unicode IDE.