Georg Baum schrieb: > 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?
Okay, so I figured out now that the correct line to add to /var/lib/locales/supported.d/de (and maybe also to /etc/locales.gen, anyway I did both) is "de_DE ISO-8859-1", instead of "de_DE.iso88591 ISO-8859-1" which I had before (picked up from a dapper forum somewhere). Then run the famous sudo dpkg-reconfigure locales and it works as advertised, even with the system locale == de_DE.utf8. (Of course, adapting this to your language of choice should be easy.) > > LyX needs latin1 (iso-8859-1), not latin9 (iso-8859-15). What exactly is lyx looking for anyway? Seems that exact spelling matters for these things. It's quite confusing, too (sigh) -sven
