Re: Finding "Bad" characters

2008-08-18 Thread G. Milde
On 30.07.08, Andre Poenitz wrote: > On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 12:45:38PM +0200, G. Milde wrote: > > On 25.07.08, Sebastian Rohrer wrote: > > > > > I have a relatively large lyx document that does not compile. The error > > > message is: > > > > > "Some characters of your document are probably not

Re: Finding "Bad" characters

2008-07-30 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 12:45:38PM +0200, G. Milde wrote: > On 25.07.08, Sebastian Rohrer wrote: > > Hi, > > > I have a relatively large lyx document that does not compile. The error > > message is: > > > "Some characters of your document are probably not representable in the > > chosen encod

Re: Finding "Bad" characters

2008-07-28 Thread Christian Ridderström
On Fri, 25 Jul 2008, Sebastian Rohrer wrote: after pasting from OOwriter. Is there any way to find those characters? It is very tedious by eye... you can try a divide-and-conquer approach. Erase the last half and see if the problem persists. If it does, erase the now remaining last half and s

Re: Finding "Bad" characters

2008-07-28 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
G. Milde wrote: On 25.07.08, Steve Litt wrote: I assume unicode is a 16 bit representation of characters. Actually, unicode is a character<--> number mapping without an upper limit to the numbers. Once upon a time, 16 bit where enough to represent all defined unicode characters, but even the

Re: Finding "Bad" characters

2008-07-28 Thread G. Milde
On 25.07.08, Steve Litt wrote: ... > I know nothing about unicode, so I'd need to be brought up to speed on that > before writing the program. References: * The Absolute Minimum Every Software Developer Absolutely, Positively Must Know About Unicode and Character Sets (No Excuses!)

Re: Finding "Bad" characters

2008-07-27 Thread Steve Litt
On Friday 25 July 2008 06:28, Sebastian Rohrer wrote: > Hi, > > I have a relatively large lyx document that does not compile. The error > message is: > > "Some characters of your document are probably not representable in the > chosen encoding. Changing the document encoding to utf8 could help." >

Re: Finding "Bad" characters

2008-07-27 Thread G. Milde
On 25.07.08, Sebastian Rohrer wrote: > Hi, > I have a relatively large lyx document that does not compile. The error > message is: > "Some characters of your document are probably not representable in the > chosen encoding. Changing the document encoding to utf8 could help." Actually, changi

Re: Finding "Bad" characters

2008-07-27 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Sebastian Rohrer wrote: > The problem is most likely caused by some characters that I forgot to > change after pasting from OOwriter. Is there any way to find those > characters? It is very tedious by eye... In recent versions (1.5.5, if not earlier), you can find it by opening "View->Source Code

Finding "Bad" characters

2008-07-25 Thread Anders Ekberg
If all goes well the cursor should be at the bad characters when the error pops up. Do you have the latest 1.5-version? Ligatures (which are very hard to see) are fixed there IIRC. Also a good thing is to check your formulas. Anders

Finding "Bad" characters

2008-07-25 Thread Sebastian Rohrer
Hi, I have a relatively large lyx document that does not compile. The error message is: "Some characters of your document are probably not representable in the chosen encoding. Changing the document encoding to utf8 could help." The problem is most likely caused by some characters that I fo