Abdelrazak Younes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

| Georg Baum wrote:
| > Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote:
| >
| >> - All output:
| >>         - text (perhaps finished?)
| > Not at all. I sent a simple patch that almost finished it, but in
| > discussions it turned out that it was the wrong way to do it. Don't you
| > remember?
| > I think we have no choice but use ucs4/docstring for all strings that can
| > contain unicode internally.
| 
| Agreed, IMHO, before any cleanup can take place we need to simplify
| the API and/or provide helper functions. Writing six lines for a
| string conversion or manipulation is no-fun.

six-lines is exaggeration.
And as the cleanup goes forward, most conversions can just be removed.

| > Don't do that, lyx2lyx will do it for you. Reading and writing .lyx
| > files
| > works well. Make sure that you change the file format manually to 249 of
| > all files that were saved in utf8 when the file format was still 248.
| 
| If lyx2lyx support is done already why don't we do the change in trunk?

Too early imho.

-- 
        Lgb

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