On Sat, Nov 26, 2005 at 11:49:42PM +1300, John C. McCabe-Dansted wrote:
> On Saturday 26 November 2005 18:08, . wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I really like using lyx... but since a couple of months I have a problem.
> > Everytime I try to enter a language depended character, like ö (german o
> > umlaut) or any else. I got following:
> >
> >     http://henning.haeske.com/lyx.jpg
> 
> The LaTeX command for umlaut is \"{o}. You can enter this by way of entering 

Correct, but this shouldn't be necessary as lyx usually have no problems
with ö or most of the other latin non-ascii characters.

[...]
> Does anyone know if LyX actually tries to support unicode characters?

Yes - it doesn't.  Lyx works with various latin encodings such as
iso8859-1, unicode support is planned for version 1.5.

Helge Hafting

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