Jean-Marc Lasgouttes ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:

> Form what I understand, dead-keys mechanism does not work when the
> system uses a utf8-based locale, as modern distributions do.

Well it works partially, e.g. only acute accent works.

> What is the situation of using sanskrit with a 8bit iso8859 locale?
> Does iso8859-12 exist or not? 

In the past I used it with latin-2 locale (I need Croatian too) and modifying
texaccent.c by hand , but now on Gentoo I'm on utf-8.

Besides that, latin-2 does not have marron accent and the screen is cluttered
with those Z-like monsters :-)

> Another way to get the accents you need is via a keyboard map, in
> which case LyX will use TeX-type accents like \'{s}.

Yeah, it's possible, but sort of a pain considering that I can enter Sanskrit
characters in all the other apps directly (vim, OO, KWord, Kate...) and take
advantage of 'ucs' package to have some interchange with other users, email it
utf-8...

Unicode is simply becoming a 'must'.

Anyway, I wish you good luck to achieve 1.5 soon and there is always
opportunity to come back :-)

Sincerely,
Gour

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