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 -- Registered Linux User | #278493 GPG Public Key | 8C44EDCD