>> Start LyX as >> $ LANG=de_DE lyx > But I tried your suggestion with the version 1.3.6 and it failed :-( > I still get that garbage if I press any non english-sign button...
Henning, I think your problem is that the locale you're using is still unicode-based, no matter if its "de_DE" or [EMAIL PROTECTED] What you need to do is define a truly latin-1 locale, that is smth like "de_DE.iso-8859-1" (or similar), and then follow the advice above and do $ LANG=de_DE.iso-8859-1 lyx. Also, check that the document or character language is set to German, it'll help. $ locale -a should tell you what locales are available on your system. Use one of these, with _explicitly defined encoding string_. For example, I used to have a Russian locale, which are available as ru_RU.koi8-r, ru_RU.cp1251, and ru_RU.utf8, not to mention the simple ru_RU, which no Russian Linux user will recommend, for reasons above. PS: I don't know about Gentoo, since I love my Debian (and it's been a while since I ran into any locale-specific problems :), but on the other hand, it shouldn't be problem for you as a Gentoo user to compile the necessary locale from source, if it's not available in ebuilds =) -- WBR, Andrei Popov Using LyX 1.3.6 on Linux
