On Thu, Oct 16, 2003 at 01:55:03PM +0100, Angus Leeming wrote: > Were it to work as you suggest, would it also enable russians to type > latin or greek also? That's the same problem isn't it?
Nope ! There are three things related to this : 1) entering the character. X has locale-specific compose / key sequences. This improves a lot if you use a .UTF-8 locale, but even so, some stuff can be missing. If you can't compose a character, lyx can't see it. 2) the font must be able to encode the codepoint. Basically you need to use a unicode font. Most of the unicode fonts have all the codepoints you need for cyrillic and latin text. 3) You have to mark the text as the right language *before* trying to enter the text. And LyX has an annoying bug in this respect: if you change the language at the end of a paragraph w/o a selection, the code that checks "what's the language here" does not pick up the new setting. Probably an easy fix. A unicoded lyx would solve the latter nicely. Good fonts are on the way to solving 2). 1) is a bit more tricky. IOW, this thing works already "just fine" (ish) regards john -- Khendon's Law: If the same point is made twice by the same person, the thread is over.
