about question2
I'm writing in russian, but i see nothing in code editor, the symbol in russian i type, just splash in code, then disappear
btw, if i try to write,
label1.caption:='ФЫВА ЮАЛ';
and try to comile project, on running form I see only empty label caption.
and i see nothing russian text in source editor
All (lazarus 0.9.10 and project) are compiled with gtk2
AFAIR, gtk-1 doesn't support unicode. and i don't like to use gtk1
btw, here is error messages from console
(lazarus:3568): Pango-WARNING **: Invalid UTF-8 string passed to pango_layout_set_text()