On 2016-11-02, Michael Berger wrote: > On 11/02/2016 10:02 AM, Guenter Milde wrote:
>>> This worked in Lyx 2.1 but in Lyx 2.2.2 either an error is thrown out or >>> nothing happens when compiling to PDF.Classicthesis uses Language Encoding >>> Unicode (utf8). >>> Is this a known issue? >>> Are there alternatives to get the symbols right in my text? >> Many. But we cannot help without more info. >> Please provide a minimal example -- the smallest possible document that >> shows the problem. ... > My original document is based on classicthesis.lyx v4.2 (biblatex_biber). > However, as I am almost certain that classicthesis is NOT the culprit > (and also for simplicity reasons) I attach two mini examples using the > document class KOMA Script Article. Thanks. > Evidently there seems to be an incompatibility with utf8 because the > problem vanishes when replacing it with another encoding. Indeed, this is a long known problem with poor utf8 support. The problem is fixed in the development version of lyx. You can either just use another encoding or download the lib/unicodesymbols file from the development version and put it in your local LYXDIR (~/.lyx/ on Unix). > It appears also that the problem applies to the whole category of > symbols, meaning that none symbol of e.g. the same category > 'Mathematical Operators' compiles. I also tried another five or six > categories and all behaved equally bad. Actually, it works for "Block Drawing Symbols" and most Latin, Greek and Cyrillic characters (the latter only with the correct language setting). but almost no other special symbol. Günter
