José Matos wrote:
Hello,
I propose to warn users of 1.5.0 regarding the downgrade to 1.4 and 1.3
documents.
I intend to commit the following patch and I would appreciate suggestion to
change the spelling, grammar and content of the note.
Index: RELEASE-NOTES
===================================================================
--- RELEASE-NOTES (revision 19114)
+++ RELEASE-NOTES (working copy)
@@ -19,13 +19,13 @@
using the local encodings. LyX-1.5 now assumes that all layout files are
UTF-8 encoded. This means that non-ASCII style names are still allowed
but they nust be valid UTF-8 strings. One way of doing the conversion
-is to use iconv. Using bash, the script below should work:
-
-cd /path/to/layouts
-for l in *
-do
- cp $l tmp.txt
- iconv -f latin1 -t utf8 tmp.txt -o $l
+is to use iconv. Using bash, the script below should work:
+
+cd /path/to/layouts
+for l in *
+do
+ cp $l tmp.txt
+ iconv -f latin1 -t utf8 tmp.txt -o $l
The diff above doesn't show anything different AFAICT.
+- Reverting 1.5 LyX documents to previous versions
+Since unicode is supported in version 1.5 the dowgrade option to 1.4
*U*nicode
dow*n*grade
+and 1.3 lyx documents may be lossy. In those cases where no meaningful
+convertion
conversion
+ was possible the characters will be replaced by a
+placeholder ???.
+
+We have done our best effort to make the transition the smoothest
as smooth as
+possible, if problems remain please report them to the users mailing
+list.
developers list?
