> Just guessing --- it probably has to do with how (in which encoding) the words are passed to the > spelling engine... > > But it's probably smarter to look in the code than to guess... ;)
I had a look in the Ispell.cpp was didn't understand it. Now I found an explanation here: http://www.rpi.edu/dept/acm/packages/lyx/1.0.0/common/share/lyx/lyxrc.example (last paragraph) thanks and regards Uwe