Angus Leeming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
| Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote:
| > Angus> In Python, you can write: unicode(string,'latex+latin1')
| > Angus> http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/252124
|
| > Angus> so I guess that we could define a similar converter and pop up
| > Angus> an error box if a character cannot be converted.
|
| > Yes, if the number of characters we want to translated is small enough.
|
| I'd hope that we could either cut and paste a character array or, better,
| use libiconv to do the work for us.
|
| #include <iconv.h>
|
| iconv_t iconv_open(const char *tocode, const char *fromcode);
|
| size_t iconv(iconv_t cd,
| char **inbuf, size_t *inbytesleft,
| char **outbuf, size_t *outbytesleft);
|
| int iconv_close(iconv_t cd);
|
| In other words, use ICU to create a UTF-8 version of the latex file and
| then pass this through iconv to generate a latin-1 encoding.
That will work "just like that" in a lot of cases, but remmeber that
our .lyx file does not really have a defined norm.
But still, I think this problem is not really had to solve, might be
some work, but not hard.
--
Lgb
