Thanks Ronald for the feedback. I couldn't find the complaints you mentioned on Google and in particular the quote:
"If you're using a locale such as LANG=ru_RU, and some others, these fonts will not load in Qt. This is a Qt bug that Troll Tech refuse to fix." I am a little new to the game, but is it usual for someone to put things as strongly as 'refusing' to fix? 'Haven't got the time' or 'the issue is considered low priority at the current stage' I understand, but 'refuse to fix' struck me as a little odd. Well, to each their own. In any case, I found a workaround. Using 'ClipboardConvertor', which I got from www.maccentre.ru I found a tool to turn Word Cyrillic into plain text (or other), and with CyrillicEncoder from VersionTracker, I was able to turn plain cyrillic text into a kind of KOI8 garbage which LyX accepted and read as normal Cyrillic. I am no serious coder so perhaps I don't understand the issues, but would it be so difficult to add this functionality to LyX? Perhaps you could tell me the right place to direct my questions on this matter. Would it be enough to simply post it on the TrollTech support threads? Thanks again, Peter Ringwood > From: Ronald Florence <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Organization: 18 James Street, Providence, RI > Date: 20 Oct 2003 17:12:06 -0400 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Pasting Russian into Macintosh LyX > > Peter Ringwood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> I have been trying to make the switch from MS Word to LyX (for Mac OS X). >> >> Unfortunately, I have discovered that although cut and paste to and from LyX >> in English works just fine, in Russian, there seems to be an encoding >> problem, and no matter whether I am swapping between Word, or Text Edit, and >> no matter that I set all encodings in LyX and Word and Text Edit to KOI-8, >> all I get is garbage. > > I have not investigated the problem, but the Trolltech Qt library, on > which LyX/Mac is based, apparently has some problems with Russian > encoding. A quick search of Google shows quite a few complaints about > the lack of KOI-8 suport in the Trolltech Qt library, and even the > documentation for the lyx-math fonts includes this warning: > > "If you're using a locale such as LANG=ru_RU, and some others, > these fonts will not load in Qt. This is a Qt bug that Troll > Tech refuse to fix." > -- > > Ronald Florence www.18james.com >
