Ahh, thank you, I did try unchecking the "use language's default encoding" but I didn't see the drop down list that appeared! I changed it to utf8, but the problem I have now is that any non English char I put in (well, Japanese and Sanskrit) say: Package inputenc Error: unicode char \u8: (character) not set up for use with LaTeX
I may have done something stupid though - when I was first looking for encodings, I went to preferences/Outputs/Latex and changed "TeX encoding" there to utf8, and promptly forgot what it used to be. I checked on my old LyX installation and it said T1 so I put that back in there, but it may not be the right one that's used for LyX 1.5.0 . Could someone tell me if that's the right "TeX encoding"? I had a few crashes but nothing I could reproduce easily. I'm having problems with instant preview - it seems to be sporadic. A lot of the LinguistLyx things don't work anymore - although only one of them might be considered a bug, you can't put quote marks into a "phonetic text" box, even though you're supposed to be able to. The tree thing doesn't work right now but it could be an instant preview problem. Another odd error, not in LyX but the way it passes things to other programs - I perhaps stupidly downloaded Adobe Reader 8 and it's now my default PDF reader. It's not very stable and it crashes sometimes. But when I was experimenting with English only docs, it makes it start in a way that it doesn't usually start, like it's the first time or something (a box comes up and says would you like to turn on blah blah blah). And then after I close the document, it crashes. Not really a LyX problem but you may want to look into that. One more potential bug and then I'll stop: I was using Japanese text through the CJK package, which requires you to put in encoded Japanese in ERT which is made up of weird chars like "À¤¤Î¿Í¤Î ¸«ÉÕ¤±¤Ì²Ö¤ä ¸(r)¤Î·ª " It worked fine in LyX 1.4.3 but for some reason the encoding monster thinks that the weird symbols in the ERT need to change the encoding to unicode, which end up messing up the document. Not sure if these really constitute bugs or where I should report them so sorry if this is the wrong place. On 12/24/06, Dov Feldstern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi! Try Document -> Settings... -> Language, uncheck "use language's default encoding", and then see if utf8 appears in the list of Encodings. I must warn you that (a) I'm not using the Windows version, (b) I have no idea about Japanese, and (c) I'm not sure that switching to utf8 is really the correct thing to do --- with Hebrew, I find that utf8 doesn't help, rather I need to set the encoding to cp1255, so you may have to switch it to whatever encoding is correct for Japanese. Hope this helps! Dov Stacia Hartleben wrote: > Hi, I just installed the LyX1.5.0 beta and I can't figure out how to > get the encoding working. I'm trying to do a document which has > Japanese text in it but it keeps telling me "change the encoding to > "utf8" but I don't know where to do that - help? > > On 12/21/06, Niklas Huldén <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Uwe Stöhr wrote: >> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> schrieb: >> > >> >>> I fixed some bugs and changed a lot in the installer, here's the >> >>> changelog: >> >>> https://developer.berlios.de/project/shownotes.php?release_id=11890 >> >> have other people been successful with this installer ? >> >> >> >> I tried the previous version, and the current one. But >> >> - lyx.bat just opens a dos-box, immediately closes it again and dies. >> >> - lyx.exe returns the spartanic error message: >> >> "This application has failed to start, because the applicatioon >> >> configuration is incorrect. Reinstalling the application may fix >> >> this problem." >> > >> > Hmm strange. Are you on Win2000? It seems that there are two extra >> > libraries needed that I didn't ship with the installer. The next >> > version will have them included, so please test out the next version. >> > I'll release it tomorrow or on Friday. >> > >> > regards Uwe >> > >> I can confirm this. Same symptoms on a new WinXPhome machine with the >> installer from 19.12. >> >> configure.py says this: >> >configure.py >> Traceback (most recent call last): >> File "C:\Program Files\LyX 1.4.3-5\Resources\configure.py", line 34, >> in ? >> def writeToFile(filename, lines, append = False): >> NameError: name 'False' is not defined >> >> >> Niklas H. >> >
