On Monday 14 August 2006 15:30, Georg Baum wrote: > > > > Some arguments: > > > > - for utf-8 you need a fairly recent LaTeX distribution
How recent? > > - you don't rely on the fact that your coworkers and publishers actually > > accept unicode-encoded LaTeX files > > - not all packages work with unicode > > > >> What I do not know is whether this encoding should be in the file > >> itself, in the user's prefs. I agree with Jürgen that there should be both system and document encodings. > > I think there should be a general pref and a document-specific setting. > > I think we should change as little as possible. I propose the following > (slightly different than the existing lyx2lyx conversion): > > Old: \inputenc (in the LyX file) determines the encoding of the LyX file > and the TeX file You know that we had bugs. latin-9 is useless for 1.4.x and 1.3.x > New: \inputenc determines only the encoding of the TeX file, the LyX file > is always in utf-8. That would mean that we don't change the value of > \inputenc in the lyx2lyx conversion. What is the value of any encoding different from auto (that is dependent on the language)? Is it worth to consider? > We could also have a general pref as default for new documents, but instead > I would prefer a global template that is used for new documents. > > Problems: We might not be able to output a document to the desired LaTeX > encoding. We should give an error message then. We could always use, as Jean-Marc noted, an external tool like recode that gives us that for free. Or something along the same lines. > Did I miss anything? > > > Georg -- José Abílio
