On Friday 29 December 2006 14:33, Dov Feldstern wrote:
> Thanks, the patch works in the sense that it doesn't complain now about
> not finding the "default" encoding. And the display in the GUI is
> actually okay (and there's no reason why it should be affected by the
> encoding --- it depends only on the language, I think). However, the
> latex file is still not fully generated, because of the problem with iconv.

Are we talking about the same file? Your file heb142-default.lyx works fine 
here (with the described display problems) since the patch is in. The patch 
was not meant to fix the iconv problem with the "auto" encoding.

> >>But here's where the second problem arises, and this time it's LyX's
> >>problem, not latex's (though I'm less sure about this part): it seems to
> >>me like LyX itself --- not only latex --- is also determining the
> >>encoding based on the paragraph, rather than based on the individual
> >>characters' language.
> >
> > Yes. It is implemented like that because of the limitation of older
> > inputenc packages.
>
> There's no real reason why LyX should limit itself just because latex
> does. Here exactly is an example where latex will manage, if only LyX
> would.

I don't think that latex would manage, but I'll create a test patch so that we 
can try out.


Georg

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