/usr/share/scite/SciTEGlobal.properties

modificare la codifica come UTF8 (65001)
<code>
# Internationalisation
# Japanese input code page 932 and ShiftJIS character set 128
#code.page=932
#character.set=128
# Unicode
code.page=65001
#code.page=0
</code>

impostare monospace

<code>
if PLAT_GTK
        font.base=font:Bitstream Vera Sans Mono,size:9
        font.small=font:Bitstream Vera Sans Mono,size:8

</code>