j-marc wrote:
> This is not a surprise, since your files are encoded in latin1, but
> there is no \usepackage[latin1]{inputenc} in there.i am sure this comes as a surprise though to encoding ignorant people like me. it's a (chunk of a) file from one of my students btw, and it compiles without difficulties under latex > You can pass the option "-e latin1" to tex2lyx in this case. > > I understand this situation may be annoying, but I have no better idea > at hand. One possibility would be to take latin1 instead of utf8 as > default encoding, but I am not sure it would help. > > What is not good IMO is that all these encoding errors just kill the > stream, whereas they should output a '?' (for example). indeed, ending up with an empty lyx file is particularly irritating (and bad publicity for the interoperability of lyx if you ask me). perhaps a little window that allows one to choose encoding would be handy one day... best, ed.
