Pupeno wrote: > Yes, this is KDE (Kubuntu to be precise). Actually, for me inserting text from clipboard in UTF-8 works well (I have UTF-8 locale though, maybe that's the difference) -- it comes to LyX in ISO-8859-2.
However, character conversion of clipboard in KDE are really trivial: prelozeno=$(dcop klipper klipper getClipboardContents \ | iconv -f utf8 -t iso-8859-2) dcop klipper klipper setClipboardContents $prelozeno (you may need to use -s and -c -- iconv(1) is your friend) Play with it, make script out of it and attach the script to some key shortcut in KDE (Control Center/Regional & Accessibility/Keyboard shortcuts). You may also need to set correctly IFS variable (read in bash(1) about that one; maybe unsetting is what's needed? -- just in case your multi-line and multi-paragraph texts get mangled). Best, Matěj -- GPG Finger: 89EF 4BC6 288A BF43 1BAB 25C3 E09F EF25 D964 84AC http://www.ceplovi.cz/matej/blog/, Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 23 Marion St. #3, (617) 876-1259, ICQ 132822213 He inherited some good instincts from his Quaker forebears, but by diligent hard work, he overcame them. -- James Reston (about Richard Nixon)