[Lazarus] IDE - SynEdit not accept accented characters

[Mattias Gaertner]

On Sun, 08 Sep 2013 09:14:15 -0300
Junior <lazarus.linux at gmail.com> wrote:

> Lazarus 1.1 r42677M FPC 2.6.2 i386-linux-gtk 2 (Ubuntu 12.04)
> 
> (É - é - Ã - ã - Â - â ...)
> 
> ShowMessage('É Á');
> 
> appears
> 
> ShowMessage('E A');

It works here on Ubuntu 13.10.

Maybe your pascal unit is not stored UTF-8?
See Right Click in source editor / file settings / Encoding.
Do you use {$mode objfpc}{$H+} ?

Mattias