Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > But what can we do for the layout files that use 8bit characters in > layout names (and the accompanying .lyx file)? I suspect this is going > to be a real problem. Solution could be something as rude as > translating to quoted encoding really keeping it as 8bit (knowing that > we do not try to interpret these values).
You mean to simply accept 8bit values as is and do not interpret them at all? I really don't like that. If we are going to accept these 8 bit names I would prefer to convert them to utf8, even if that can result in wrongly encoded names. It would not be a problem to catch these cases in lyx2lyx and layout2layout and convert the layout names. In both cases we could use the encoding of the locale as original encoding. This is not foolproof, but this matches how LyX 1.4 interprets these names. Georg
