Nicolas Dubuit wrote: > I'm afraid I didn't explain clearly the solution.
I think you did, but others mixed it up with other related problems. > Actually this was not a language problem (the interface was in french > already!) but a charset problem (special characters were not rendered > correctly). > > Only "fr_FR.utf8" was available on my system, so I just had to add > "fr_FR.iso88591" to have lyx working properly. This is the important point, it should probably go somewhere to the wiki. > Note however that this didn't screw anything else, as my default locale is > still fr-FR.utf8 - even starting LyX with "LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8 lyx-qt" > works, as lyx is now able to find iso-8859-1 . Yes, that is how it should work. Georg