Angus Leeming wrote: > If you use some locale encoding (e.g. iso-8859 a.k.a. latin1) then you'll > be able to input characters like � using your compose key (compose-ss) or > a dead key. The result is stored by LyX internally as a single character > (0xDF I believe) and will be shown on screen correctly. > > Of course, if you change your locale encoding to, say ISO-8859-5, > cyrillic, then the (0xDF) character will be displayed on screen as > something very different to an es-zett. That is, your file is not > portable. Different people around the world will see different things.
Really? I always thought that the encoding of a LyX document was determined by the document language, and a short test shows that this works (at least here). Setting LANG=ru_RU gives russian menus but an � etc. in a german document is still visible as � on screen. I therefore believe that all characters of the character set that is associated with the document language are supported. > LyX has native support (meaning that \ss is rendered on screen as � rather > than as <ert>\ss</ert>) for some of these LaTeX macros but not all. In particular not for \ss AFAIK. Georg
