about the libintl version in the LyX windows installer

[Uwe Stöhr]

Hello Joost,

good to see that you are still active with LyX.
As you might know, the Windows version of LyX suffers from of a buggy version of libintl (intl.dll). 
This is the reason why you for example cannot switch the menu language from within LyX. JMarc once 
identified the bug as bug in the libintl version we are using for LyX on Windows and you tried to 
compile a more recent version of libintl for Windows but failed.

I now made a new attempt to overcome this problem. I found an up to date windows version of gettext 
including libintl:
http://www.gtk.org/download-windows.html

I also found other Windows sources of gettext 0.17 for Windows and could compile the intl.dll from 
the sources. The problem is that my compiled intl.dll won't link with your LyX Windows package and 
all my attempts to change the source code to make it link failed. Can you therefore please have a 
look if you are able to use gettext 0.17 for you LyX Windows bundle?

I can also send you a zip-file containing the libintl sources and an MSVC 
project file if you like.

many thanks in advance and regards
Uwe