John Levon writes: > On Tue, Jan 21, 2003 at 03:14:37PM +0100, Nabil Hathout wrote: > > > In fact, the problem exists only with the Qt front-end. It seems (-dbg 512) > > that the font encoding is guessed from the language value and that the ones > > associated with "Français" are either iso8859-1 and iso10646-1. I have added > > the relevant encoding variables in the preferences but it seems they are not used. > > This will not affect your ability to *enter* the symbols. This is > completely outside of our control. Try fiddling with your $LANG setting.
my $LANG is set to fr_FR@euro. Its is the only available value defined in /etc/locale.gen : fr_FR@euro ISO-8859-15 What should be the $LANG value that would make lyx choose the iso8859-15 encoding ? --Nabil