--- a/QTfrontend/ui/page/pagemain.cpp	Tue Dec 24 15:55:22 2013 -0500
+++ b/QTfrontend/ui/page/pagemain.cpp	Tue Dec 24 16:58:49 2013 -0500
@@ -183,6 +183,7 @@
         QFile file(tipFile);
         file.open(QIODevice::ReadOnly);
         QTextStream in(&file);
+        in.setCodec("UTF-8");
         QString line = in.readLine();
         int tip_platform = 0;
         while (!line.isNull()) {