On 2016-09-08, F M Salter wrote:
> Hi,
> In the User Guide it states:
> LyX Document
> biber provides full Unicode support, ...only with the package
> *biblatex*; recommended for multilingual texts and for languages
> that don't use Latin letters
> There is no further information in "Additional Features".
> in the wiki:
> it states that biber is fully unicode aware.
> Examples are given for using biblatex with LyX. They do not use
> utf8.
> In attempting to incorporate citations with utf8 characters using
> English (NOT US English) various incompatibilities appear as both
> "english" and "british" appear in the latex.
LyX defaults to use latin1 (not utf8) for the LaTeX source file.
You can change this under Document>Settings>Language>Encoding
(select Unicode (utf8)).
Alternatively, select Document>Settings>Fonts>non-TeX fonts and compile with
a Unicode-aware TeX engine (XeTeX or LuaTeX).
Independent from the encoding, the language may (or may not) lead to problems.
With LyX you can usually mix several languages in one document but there are
some incompatibilites later in the pipeline (e.g. greek and polytonikogreek
cannot be used in one document).
> I appreciate that this problem may be avoided but not solved by using
> the bibtex handling of characters such as {\l}.
> Is there a solution to his problem or is it necessary to await the full
> integration of biblatex into LyX?
Try with Document>Settings>Language>Encoding
(select Unicode (utf8)).
and report problems/errors. Best with a minimal example.
Günter
