Am 25.07.2006 um 03:35 schrieb Bennett Helm:
On Jul 24, 2006, at 4:23 PM, Andreas Busch wrote:
Bennett -- many thanks again for compiling the LyX 1.4.2 binary
for the Mac and making it available on your college's website --
much appreciated!
I have been running it for the last couple of days, and do enjoy
the fact that the user interface is now available in German (the
language my Powerbook prefers ;-). However, there is one nuisance,
and it concerns the German umlauts (a,o,u with little dots on top:
ä,ö,ü). In LyX, they are displayed as "a,"o and "u. So the
"Insert" menu item is "Einfügen" in German, but LyX displays it as
"Einf"ugen".
Is there a way this could be corrected? Or does it have something
to do with the QT toolkit? I seem to recall that no such problems
existed in the LyX 1.3.x branch, but there may have been changes
in the toolkit since.
That's a known problem with LyX on Mac, and we haven't figured out
a good solution. Georg Kö reports (and I can confirm) that setting
OUTPUT_CHARSET=iso8859-1 in ~/.MacOSX/environment.plist works. (See
the wiki for instructions on how to change things in
environment.plist.) Doing this, however, changes the setting for
*all* programs you launch, not just LyX, and that may have negative
side effects. Clearly, a better solution is needed.
Bennett=
Bennett -- thanks for the quick reply, and sorry to hear that the
problem seems difficult to solve.
Is there any way to switch the interface language to English just for
LyX? For if I change the OUTPUT_CHARSET variable to iso8859-1, the
user interface in LyX is fine, but a side effect is that the pdf
files I generate from LyX are totally garbled :-( So this is no
solution.
Best wishes
Andreas
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