On 2009-04-22, E. Kaplan wrote:
>>> 2. When trying to import a Latex file into Lyx it gagged on the
>>> umlauts in the Latex file ( W\"assle )
>>> How do I get around it?
>> Did you try the way LyX writes Umlauts?
> Yes, I tried both ways of writing umlauts, but both failed.
As you do not provide a minimal (but complete) example, I can only guess
that it is the encoding problem described below.
Here is a minimal example:
\documentclass[]{article}
\usepackage{lmodern}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\begin{document}
Günter G\"unter G\"{u}nter
\end{document}
When importing, tex2lyx works fine but the lyx2lyx step fails:
Warning: #LyX file created by tex2lyx 1.6.2
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/share/lyx/lyx2lyx/lyx2lyx", line 83, in <module>
main()
File "/usr/share/lyx/lyx2lyx/lyx2lyx", line 76, in main
doc = LyX.File(**options.__dict__)
File "/usr/share/lyx/lyx2lyx/LyX.py", line 652, in __init__
self.read()
File "/usr/share/lyx/lyx2lyx/LyX.py", line 287, in read
line = self.input.readline().decode(self.encoding)
File "/usr/lib/python2.5/encodings/utf_8.py", line 16, in decode
return codecs.utf_8_decode(input, errors, True)
UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf8' codec can't decode bytes in position 9-14:
unsupported Unicode code range
Error: Das Konvertierungsskript ist fehlgeschlagen
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/home/milde/Texte/Test/LyX/LyX16-bugs/import-umlauts.lyx stammt von einer
anderen LyX-Version, aber das lyx2lyx-Skript konnte das Dokument nicht
konvertieren.
Looking at the LyX file in a text editor revealed, that \"u and \"{u} are
both converted to a latin-1 encoded ü.
Converting to UTF-8 did not help, but changing
-\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
+\usepackage[latin1]{inputenc}
did (of course after converting the UTF-8 encoded ü).
Günter
