Hi, I did not find this bug in bugzilla.lyx.org : if you type a non ASCII character in the layout combobox (Layout List Filtering) then lyx-1.6 crashes with the following output:
lassert.cpp(21): ASSERTION static_cast<unsigned char>(ascii[i]) < 0x80 VIOLATED IN docstring.cpp:50 Assertion triggered in void lyx::doAssert(const char*, const char*, long int) by failing check "false" in file lassert.cpp:23 PhC