Mon, 24 Jul 2006 19:35:58 -0700 Bennett Helm
On Jul 24, 2006, at 4:23 PM, Andreas Busch wrote:
Bennett -- many thanks again for compiling the LyX 1.4.2 binary
for the Mac and making it available on your college's website --
much appreciated!
I have been running it for the last couple of days, and do enjoy
the fact that the user interface is now available in German (the
language my Powerbook prefers ;-). However, there is one nuisance,
and it concerns the German umlauts (a,o,u with little dots on top:
ä,ö,ü). In LyX, they are displayed as "a,"o and "u. So the
"Insert" menu item is "Einfügen" in German, but LyX displays it as
"Einf"ugen".
Is there a way this could be corrected? Or does it have something
to do with the QT toolkit? I seem to recall that no such problems
existed in the LyX 1.3.x branch, but there may have been changes
in the toolkit since.
That's a known problem with LyX on Mac, and we haven't figured out
a good solution. Georg Kö reports (and I can confirm) that setting
OUTPUT_CHARSET=iso8859-1 in ~/.MacOSX/environment.plist works. (See
the wiki for instructions on how to change things in
environment.plist.) Doing this, however, changes the setting for
*all* programs you launch, not just LyX, and that may have negative
side effects. Clearly, a better solution is needed.
Bennett
Maybe a very stupid idea, but would it be possible to add something
to lyx.org.plist ?
Anders Ekberg
