On Sat, Nov 26, 2005 at 11:49:42PM +1300, John C. McCabe-Dansted wrote: > On Saturday 26 November 2005 18:08, . wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I really like using lyx... but since a couple of months I have a problem. > > Everytime I try to enter a language depended character, like ö (german o > > umlaut) or any else. I got following: > > > > http://henning.haeske.com/lyx.jpg > > The LaTeX command for umlaut is \"{o}. You can enter this by way of entering
Correct, but this shouldn't be necessary as lyx usually have no problems with ö or most of the other latin non-ascii characters. [...] > Does anyone know if LyX actually tries to support unicode characters? Yes - it doesn't. Lyx works with various latin encodings such as iso8859-1, unicode support is planned for version 1.5. Helge Hafting