> I mainly use lyx to write project reports in english, but I > recently had > reason to write one in swedish and had some problems with > writing swedish > characters. > Whenever I type å, ä, ö or their uppercase equivalents on the > keyboard, I > get the à character instead. > However, if I input the characters in another program, I can > copy/paste them > without any problems. > > Does anyone know how to fix this problem? > > I'm using LyX 1.6.1 on Gentoo.
It might be caused by many different things... So I am only guessing here :). Try this: Open a bash-shell type: export LANG=sv_SE.UTF-8 Start Lyx frrom the bash-shell Does this help? If not, try the command xev what does it print in the bash window when you type å,ä or ö? Ingar
