Am Samstag, 18. Juni 2016 um 12:56:23, schrieb Georg Baum <georg.b...@post.rwth-aachen.de> > Kornel Benko wrote: > > > Thanks for clarification. Nonetheless, we have a mess here. > > 1.) Reading .lyx without need to convert (e.g. in current lyx-format) > > works regardless of environment (This is done by lyx directly, without > > interpreting the file-name) > > Probably because you loaded it from recent files, where the name is stored > in utf8. Try to load it via command line, that will probably cause similar > problems.
No.
1.) Once the file is stored with actual format, I can open regardless of env.
2.) Storing files lyx does not care about locales. File name is always utf8
encoded.
(At least, this is what I feel to observe)
> > 2.) Reading .lyx with lyx2lyx does not work.
> > So my question: Why not pass the filename to lyx2lyx (or any other
> > program) without _any_ interpretation?
>
> Because then we would need two pipelines for file names in LyX: One using
> unicode, one using an unknown encoding. We would not be able to convert
> between these two, we would not be able to display filenames in the unknown
> encoding, and it would be too easy to interpret them as utf8 by accident.
> Also, some file names are generated internally from others, we cannot do
> that without knowing the encoding.
>
> IMO it is good that LyX uses the unicode-aware docstring internally for
> everything which can be non-ASCII. Conversions should be done at the
> interfaces where needed. The question in your case is now how exactly we can
> make QFile::encodeName() use the wanted encoding:
>
> 1) Which environment variables are used by QFile::encodeName() to determine
> the encoding?
>
> 2) Does our own locale manipulation (see e.g. init() in os_unix.cpp)
> interfere with that?
>
> If we know the answers to these two questions we know whether the current
> behaviour is OK, or whether we need to file a bug report to qt, or whether
> our usage of locales is wrong wrt QFile::encodeName() and we need to do
> something on our side.
>
>
> Georg
OK.
Kornel
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