Dear All!
I have recently installed LyX 1.4.1 for Windows using
LyXWin141Small-2-01.exe
and encountered completely unfathomable problems concerning Polish
localization.
The same installation (with exactly the same configuration) was done on
two computers (both updated Polish-version W2000 dual-booting with Kubuntu
Linux) and they have different problems with Polish diacritical marks. On
my laptop menu and dialog boxes of LyX erroneously display only ą (as s
with inverted hat), ś and ź (thick vertical lines). However my desktop
doesn't succeed to display also other Polish-specific letters, so they
look as follows:
ą - 1 in superscript
ć - linked ae
ę - e with hat
ł - 3 in superscript
ń - Spanish n with tilde
ś - vertical line
ź - vertical line
ż - inverted (Spanish) question mark.
I have double-checked both installation and every configuration file is
exactly the same. The only difference is that on desktop I have left old
installation of LyX 1.3.7 (which correctly displays all diacritical marks
in menu but have menu-shortcuts colliding with other ones) and possibly in
other folders remained some remnants of 1.4beta experiments.
I have contacted with Tomasz Łuczak, LyX Polish translator. He confirmed
that the problem persists regardless of .mo file encoding. His claim is
that the laptop problems look like CP1250 - ISO-8859-2 conflict, while the
desktop ones like ISO-8859-1 - ISO-8859-2 conflict so it is really very
strange...
As menu with those strange signs is counter-productive I have considered
turning the localization off, but under Linux LyX-QT works perfectly and
it is a nuisance to switch between two languages on daily basis...
Besides my efforts to propagate LyX among my Windows-addicted colleagues
are very difficult till it looks correctly... Also I am to start
TeX-learning laboratories next semester and I have planned to demonstrate
my students LyX as a very convenient tool...
Best regards,
--
Andrzej Tomaszewski
Department of Economics
Warsaw University
PS: This mail is in ISO-8859-2 encoding and contains Polish diacritical
marks as it was necessary in order to demonstrate the problem.
