Am Freitag, 15. September 2006 22:48 schrieb Sven Schreiber: > Turns out that apparently on ubuntu dapper (6) it's not so easy to get > iso8859 locales. What's in the mailing list (taken from debian) does > _not_ work, dapper only gives you utf8. I had to edit files like > /horrible_path_to/supported.d/de (de for German in my case), then I got > de_DE.iso88591 (and btw also the euro/15 variant) with locale -a, but > still no success with lyx menus. > > In the end I installed localeconf and switched the default locale to > iso-8859-15. (don't forget to log off and on again) Until I get around > to brushing up my Russian, that should do... > > So the 8859-locale is installed, but it doesn't work with lyx if the > system locale is de_DE.utf8. I don't really understand why?
LyX needs latin1 (iso-8859-1), not latin9 (iso-8859-15). Georg
