Georg Baum wrote >Do your .ui files work with this patch (requires latest svn to apply >cleanly)?
I tried your patch on revision 16011 and it seems to work: the menu (UTF-8) is displayed correctly (except that if an entry in the ui file contains non ASCII characters in the name of the layout (for example: Item "Théorème" "layout Théorème", selecting such an entry crashes lyx even if it does not exists). The problem remains for layouts: I wrote my own layouts in ISO-8859 using accented characters for Styles names for: -they appear in a combobox with the name of the Style -I did not find in the doc that the name's Style had to be written in ASCII -My layouts where working with all the previous versions of lyx and on any linux system (ISO or UTF-8) Now if you decide to introduce a GUIname, in such a way the name of Styles have to be in ASCII, I think that all the lyx files I wrote will be unreadable with the next versions of lyx. PhC