Encoding raw helps prevent non-latin characters from being encoded

I use tinymce to input Greek Characters but tinymce encodes them to
α > α
β > β
... and so on
which is not what I want

I instruct tinymce to entity_encoding : "raw" and non ascii characters are not encoded

tinyMCE.init({
   mode : "exact",
   entity_encoding : "raw",
....

just posting it here for reference to anybody who is facing the same problem