Borland Kylix Open Edition doesn't seem to like UTF-8 environments. Specifically, it doesn't work well at all by default on Ubuntu Linux. However, it is easily worked around. You simply need to change the language when you run Kylix. For example, can start Borland Delphi on Ubuntu Linux by running it with the command line:
$ LANG=en_US.ISO8859-1 startdelphi

Also, you will need libxaw.so.6. On Ubuntu that is in the libxaw6 package.

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