OK, I've just had a few weeks from H*LL because of Macro Squish-WindBlows (MS-Windows to others) 8.1 going South on me, so while trying to recover as much data as possible from the blasted nightmare of an OS I lost most of my recipes, all of my equipment & other profiles to BeerSmith 2.2. So I just installed LINUX on my laptop & installed the BeerSmith 2 Debian package. All of it installed just fine, I started to customize & things worked great, then I tried to open one of my recipes that uses some German characters and the program crashed, hard. So much so that it lost the activation codes & I had to re-do that part FOUR TIMES before I came here to look for answers. Guess that I am about the only American using Germanic characters in my recipes so there is nothing there, especially since I'm on LINUX Netrunner 16 Ozymandias now. But on the off chance that someone knows what's going on here...