On Monday 14 August 2006 20:07, Georg Baum wrote:
> Am Montag, 14. August 2006 18:47 schrieb José Matos:
> > I agree with Jürgen that there should be both system and document
> > encodings.
>
> How should that work? IMO the general setting should only be used as
> default value for new documents.
Basically that is the purpose of what we have now, (the file input
encoding):
default -> system settings
specific -> chosen encoding, document setting
> > > I think we should change as little as possible. I propose the following
> > > (slightly different than the existing lyx2lyx conversion):
> > >
> > > Old: \inputenc (in the LyX file) determines the encoding of the LyX
> > > file and the TeX file
> >
> > You know that we had bugs. latin-9 is useless for 1.4.x and 1.3.x
>
> I know. We can make a list of allowed encodings, but if I have a file with
> \inputencoding latin1 I don't see any reason to change that.
>
> > What is the value of any encoding different from auto (that is
>> dependent on the language)? Is it worth to consider?
>
> I can't parse that sentence.
Welcome to the club. :-)
What I think that I meant is something like, is the current value of input
encoding relevant?
That is, does it makes sense to have an encoding different from that
associated with the document's language?
Is there any case where this makes sense in practical terms?
I know that it makes sense to respect that value if it is used, but I find
it useless. Do you have any good case where this reasoning is wrong?
But this is merely a rambling, I think that we should go the way you
proposed.
> Georg
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José Abílio
