>>>>> "Bennett" == Bennett Helm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> This is definitely not perfect, but is simple and should uniformly >> improve the situation. >> >> I'd welcome testing. Bennett> Nope. If I export LANG=fr (or fr_FR or fr_FR.ISO-8859-1), and Bennett> then start LyX, accents still do not appear correctly. Bennett> (Adding export OUTPUT_CHARSET=iso-8859.1 in addition works.) And what happens if you export LANG=fr_FR.iso-8859.1 (if this is really what you put in OUTPUT_CHARSET)? It is important to get the locale name right. This patch is supposed to help when you have provided a valid 8bit locale. JMarc