Abdelrazak Younes wrote: > Dov Feldstern wrote: >> In hebcaption.lyx, there is a float with a caption which is in Hebrew, >> and a crash occurs when trying to generate the latex file (either export >> to latex, or view dvi). > > When trying to export to latex (pdflatex) or to view the dvi, I have an > error message about encoding problem (see screenshot). This is the same > when I set the document language to Hebrew (it was english before).
This error should only occur if the language of a character implies an encoding that can not represent the character. For example, if you type a hebrew word, but set the language to english you will get this error, because LyX tries to output the hebrew characters in latin9 encoding, and this cannot work. I had a look at the file, and the languages seem to be set correctly. I suspect that the bug has nothing to do with encodings, but with incorrect font nesting (see also one of my favourite bugs: http://bugzilla.lyx.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1973). This does only now become more visible, because a wrong language can lead to these iconv errors. > But when I set the encoding to utf8, I have no crash but a lot of latex > error. I guess this is because I don't have any latex support for Hebrew > installed here: Yes, you need to install hebrew fonts. The ones suggested by babel are not good. I installed the culmus fonts from ivritex, and they seem to work well. Georg
