After the unicode merge to trunk in summer we discussed the question what \inputencoding default
in a LyX file was supposed to do. We came to the conclusion then that this simply meant to not use the inputenc package, and simply output the document in 8bit characters as is. Then the question arose how to convert those documents to utf8. LyX 1.4 can ignore the encoding very well, but this is not possible anymore in 1.5, since we can't "pass 8bit characters as is" anymore. We decided that the best lyx2lyx can do is to assume latin1 encoding for those documents. Meanwhile we found out that the original assumption of lyx2lyx that the whole file is encoded using only one encoding was wrong. I implemented support for multiple encodings that is used for files with \inputencoding default I propose to change the conversion of files with "default" inputencoding to be the same as with "auto", together with the corresponding changes in LyX itself. The only difference between "auto" and "default" in LyX 1.5 would then be that documents with "auto" would use the inputenc package, but documents with "default" would not. Reasons: - This will make LyX 1.-5 display the same stuff on screen as 1.4, because the encoding for this is derived from the language in 1.4 - It will avoid nasty conversion errors like that decsribed in http://bugzilla.lyx.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3043#c6 Of course that means that all "default" documents that are already converted to 1.5 would not be valid anymore. IMO this is better than to add a new file format with an intermediate conversion step that might fail as in http://bugzilla.lyx.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3043#c6. Opinions? If this is OK I'll develop a patch (will be easy). Georg
