Georg Baum schrieb:
Not only. It could also fail if somebody writes some japanese words in a german document without changing thelanguage. Then LyX will try to convert the hebrew characters from utf8 to latin1, and that fails of course. Another case could be that the requested conversion is not supported by the iconv implementation.
In that case, an empty string as return value sounds reasonable.
In case of an error, we could also try to convert each character individually (some may survive iconv) but maybe this is too much effort and leads to unwanted result as well.
Michael
