jens weber wrote:
Hi All,
I wanted to change something in my PhD thesis (written in German under
Lyx1.4.x on a windows system) but it's not possible to get a pdf-file of
my document under lyx1.5.2 (windows). When i try to build the pdf I get
an error message which tells me that I should change to the
"Dokumentenkodierung" to the utf-8 format. However I have no clue how to
do so. I tried the iconv tool, but that did not work on my XP
machine...are there any other tricks that i might have missed?
The iconv tool works fine for me under Win XP. Was it that iconv itself
did not work for you (produced an error), or just that it failed to
rectify the problem? IIRC, iconv does not specifically identify
characters that fail to convert, but you can run the conversion and then
diff the files to see what changed.
Other than that, you might try deleting and reinserting chunks of the
document (preferbably on a backup copy) to see if you can isolate where
the problem character(s) lie.
/Paul
