I did a "New From Template" and selected letter.lyx. On the command line I see:
lyxlex: UNcompressed sys:1: DeprecationWarning: Non-ASCII character '\xe9' in file /usr/local/share/l yx/lyx2lyx/lyx2lyx on line 2, but no encoding declared; see http://www.python.or g/peps/pep-0263.html for details /usr/local/share/lyx/lyx2lyx/lyx2lyx:19: DeprecationWarning: Non-ASCII character '\xe9' in file /usr/local/share/lyx/lyx2lyx/error.py on line 2, but no encoding declared; see http://www.python.org/peps/pep-0263.html for details from error import error, warning /usr/local/share/lyx/lyx2lyx/lyx2lyx:20: DeprecationWarning: Non-ASCII character '\xe9' in file /usr/local/share/lyx/lyx2lyx/parser_tools.py on line 2, but no e ncoding declared; see http://www.python.org/peps/pep-0263.html for details from parser_tools import set_comment, set_format, check_token /usr/local/share/lyx/lyx2lyx/lyx2lyx:192: DeprecationWarning: Non-ASCII characte r '\xe9' in file /usr/local/share/lyx/lyx2lyx/lyxconvert_224.py on line 2, but n o encoding declared; see http://www.python.org/peps/pep-0263.html for details __import__("lyxconvert_" + fmt).convert(header,body) text not available! no text in cache! BufferView::update() The document loads without errors after a save, though. ---Kayvan -- Kayvan A. Sylvan | Proud husband of | Father to my kids: Sylvan Associates, Inc. | Laura Isabella Sylvan | Katherine Yelena (8/8/89) http://sylvan.com/~kayvan | "crown of her husband" | Robin Gregory (2/28/92)