Tribulations Parallèles wrote: > Hi everybody, > > By using the SVN version (from about 2 days ago), I have found that a LyX > documents in a directory containing french accents prevents adding images > or "external material" in the document. > > If I put a LyX document in this directory: > ~/Documents/not_work_by_matter/life_thoughts/coué > and I try to add an image in a figure float, for example "1.jpg", when I > try to edit the image with the "edit" button, it makes LyX crash.
Can you please send us a backtrace? Then it is probably easy to find the reason for the bug. > If I put a Lyx document in this directory: > ~/Documents/not_work_by_matter/life_thoughts/TPS - Réflexion sur la vie > après la mort > and I try to add an image in a figure float, LyX does not allow to edit > the image: it says: "File does not > exist: /home/foobar/Documents/not_work_by_matter/life_thoughts/TPS - > Réflexion sur la vie après la mort/rt/1.jpg > So it adds "rt" (the end of "mort") one or several times at the end of the > path. Maybe the spaces in the path are the reason for the latter. Can you check whether that happens also if the path contains only accents and no spaces? > Just to report what it seems to be a bug (known or not). Hope this is the > right place. Yes, this is good, and your feedback is welcome. If you don't get a fix within a few days please post both bugs also at http://bugzilla.lyx.org so they don't get forgotten. Georg
