Georg Baum wrote: > Juergen Spitzmueller wrote: > > (but if you insist, I'll change only the German varieties and leave the > > others to their users). > > I don't insist, I was just wondering. If you like to change all languages > please go ahead.
Don't get me wrong, I appreciate your expertise, the more so as you have the most knowledge in this area. So I was just wondering why you are wondering ;-) > I don't know. And that is not handled by lyx2lyx btw. I was wrong, lyx2lyx > does not read the languages file directly but the generated file > lib/lyx2lyx/lyx2lyx_lang.py. That means that changes to the languages file > are currently ignored. So this change would be OK in principle? > That does also mean that as long as lib/lyx2lyx/lyx2lyx_lang.py is not > regenerated all is OK and the languages file can be changed. When (and by whom) is this supposed to be regenerated? > > And if he sends me his file then? > > That is a problem. This is the same as changing a layout file and then > sending a .lyx file that uses that layout. I don't have any better idea > than to tell users to run lib/lyx2lyx/generate_encoding_info.py on their > old languages file (if they modified it) and delete it afterwards. I see. > > Will this ever > > work correctly? Isn't there a way to get the encoding from the file? > > Only if it was explicitly set, and in that case that value is used. Thanks for the explanation. > Georg Jürgen
