On 01/14/2017 12:11 AM, Scott Kostyshak wrote: > On Sat, Jan 14, 2017 at 05:56:21PM +1300, gordon cooper wrote: >> Happy New Year to All. >> >> This has been solved (after some detective work) but am reporting >> it, just in case it happens to others. >> >> Had a recent mysterious error when trying an Lyx to pdf conversion. >> The program reported a Latex error but gave no error report. >> >> The same Lyx file converted to html immediately, no errors. I had >> a coding error, ignored by one converter. A look at the source code >> was not a success. >> >> So, used the traditional system of halving the file, testing halving again, >> until there only a single line of code left. There was the problem, a >> Hyperlink >> with a irreconcilable character, a beginning itemize dot, like this : >> >> >> • http://www.debian.org/doc/FAQ/ch-pkgtools.en.html >> >> Removing the dot fixed the problem, but an hour or two wasted looking >> for it. >> >> Gordon. >> > Happy New Year, Gordon! > > Thanks for reporting this problem. Next time it would be helpful if you > sent an example file. I went ahead and created an example file and I can > reproduce the same problem you saw. The example file is attached. If you > open LyX in the terminal, you see the following message when compiling: > > Error 84 returned from iconv when converting from UCS-4LE to > ISO-8859-15: Invalid or incomplete multibyte or wide character > > It does not give a clue where the error comes from, and indeed the LyX > GUI is not helpful at all in indicating where the error might be. > > I'm moving this thread to the lyx-devel list now. I think you wanted to > just give lyx-users a warning in case they come across the problem, and > I think potential discussion of how to improve LyX to handle this case > should proceed on lyx-devel.
This kind of error does seem to crop up quite a bit. It'd be nice if we could say something more informative. Could we at least say what the character was? Or report its location in the file? Richard
