Nicholas Allen wrote: > I hope someone can help me. I am trying to import a text file that > contains German accented characters. The file is saved in UTF-8 format. > How do I do this? If I use the import ASCII the accented characters > appear as two junk characters. However, I can type the characters on the > keyboard and they are displayed no problem. I just don't feel like > typing in a 100 page German document by hand! There must be a way to get > this text file into Lyx isn't there?
You probably have to convert the text file from UTF-8 to latin1 first. Jürgen