> Hi, I found LyX and guessed that would be the perfect idea
> to get people using LaTeX instead of stupid MS-Word.
>
> I have been using LaTeX+CJK package for Chinese documents in LaTeX.
> CJK did a great job and it is an add-on package which can work with
> LaTeX2e. I know LyX can not let me edit Chinese but I can
> cut-and-paste Chinese characters from CXTERM or other windows
> capable of showing Chinese and then I can use all other LyX features.
>
> The only problem is : As you may know, Chinese character is 2-byte
> character which will screw up LyX exported latex file.
>
> Is there any method to prevent this ? Or Will LyX will support
> 2-byte characters like Chinese, Japanese ??
The main LyX tree does not support 2-byte characters, but at some point in
time, there was an optional patch available that added this to LyX.
I'm sorry that I've lost the link, but maybe someone on the list has it?
The plan in the highly experimental (read: unstable) develop branch is to add
Unicode support.
Greets,
Asger
