Juergen Spitzmueller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Nicholas Allen wrote: > > I hope someone can help me. I am trying to import a text file that > > contains German accented characters. The file is saved in UTF-8 format. > > How do I do this? If I use the import ASCII the accented characters > > appear as two junk characters. However, I can type the characters on the > > keyboard and they are displayed no problem. I just don't feel like > > typing in a 100 page German document by hand! There must be a way to get > > this text file into Lyx isn't there? > > You probably have to convert the text file from UTF-8 to latin1 first.
On Windows, this can be done by using type: type file.utf8 > file.txt will give you the latin1 version of file.utf8 in file.txt. -- Enrico
