Hi,
There is a great chance to be the 1000th to Report this problem:
The new Start Screen does not support any of my Projects, because here in Europe we have some pretty funny characters. Newertheless, I know that I can launch them via the menu bar. I think it is easy to fix (just Switch to UTF8 - it should be compatible and is just a variable to change within the code) and would be really helpful. The current status is not an improvement of the Start Screen, it is just broken...
Update: Problem solved - Fix is working!