Juergen Spitzmueller wrote:
Asger Ottar Alstrup wrote:
LaTeX can do UTF8, it seems.
http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-utf8/2004-04/msg00000.html
Just use "\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}".
Note that there are still lots of packages that don't work with utf8. For
instance, listings and soul are two very common and useful packages that do
not support unicode.
Conversion to other encodings is a must.
The question is: should this conversion happens in C++/LyX or
externally? I am all for only utf8 export from LyX.
The conversion from LateX utf8 to some other encoding can happen
afterwards thanks to some (python) scripts. I cannot see any degradation
of performance doing that as the conversion would be in any case an
order of magnitude faster than for example the conversion to dvi.
In summary and IMHO: let's keep the core C++ LyX simple and only support
utf8.
Abdel.
