Thanks to Jean-Pierre, here is the solution. I post it here for future reference :
Lyx cannot use utf8 (yet). So, the charset ISO-8859-1 has to be available for your locale. For example, if you're using fr_FR (Language = French, Country = France) , $ locale -a | grep fr_FR should show something like fr_FR fr_FR.iso88591 fr_FR.utf8 If the iso88591 line is missing, you have to re-generate the locales. For (k)ubuntu and debian, this is done with $ sudo dpkg-reconfigure locales and select fr_FR.iso-8859-1 in the list. BTW, apparently it is not necessary to have it as your _default_ locale, though. Le Mercredi 19 Avril 2006 11:26, Jean-Pierre Chretien a écrit : > >>From: Nicolas Dubuit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >>To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org > >>Subject: LyX 1.4.x user interface : problem with accented characters. > >> (fr_FR) Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2006 11:16:26 +0200 > >> > >> > >>Hi, > >> > >>I installed LyX 1.4.0 and 1.4.1 on kubuntu Breezy (French). > >> > >>My problem is I can't get the accented characters in the interface to > >> show up properly. This looks like a character encoding error (utf8 > >> interpreted as iso-8859-1 or opposite) but I couldn't find where to set > >> this up. > >> > >>btw I opened /usr/share/lyx/ui/default.ui with kuiviewer - it shows > >> nicely there. > >> > >>I added a screenshot which is probably more explicit than anything I can > >>write. The 2nd and 4th menu options are clearly not what one would > >> expect. > >> > >>Does someone have a trick concerning this? > > Take a look at this thread in the devel list, it seems that you must > change your locale from utf to latin until version 1.5 > http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.editors.lyx.devel/47364/focus=47376 -- ------------------------------------------------------------- Nicolas Dubuit (+33 4 42 25 40 25) CEA-Cadarache bat.513 / 13100 ST PAUL LEZ DURANCE CEDEX -------------------------------------------------------------
