On Tue, 25 May 2010 15:17:38 +0200, Jürgen Spitzmüller <sp...@lyx.org> wrote: > Paul A. Rubin wrote: >> >> Error 92 returned from iconv when converting from UCS-4LE to >> >> ISO-8859-15: Illegal byte sequence >> > >> > iconv error. I should've thought of this. This is probably due to some >> > cut and paste operation you did, and you've ended up with characters >> > that are illegal in your file's encoding. (Another possibility is that >> > you have an illegal character in a BibTeX file.) In any event, the >> > solution is to bisect the file and find the problem: Delete the top >> > half, and try to export; etc, etc. >> >> I'm not sure, but I think it should be possible to run iconv against the >> LyX file in a shell, using the conversion mentioned in the error >> message, and get a message identifying the offending characters or at >> least the approximate location (?). Ditto with the BibTeX files, if any. > > FWIW, the posted console message already identifies the problematic > character: > >> Stopped at: 0xfb01 > > This is the "fi" ligature. See: > http://www.decodeunicode.org/en/u+fb01/properties > > However, LyX is supposed to handle this particular character. This is > strange. > > Jürgen
Just to write to confirm all of your suspicions, I was able to find the one offending instance of the "fi" ligature and remove it- thank you, Jürgen! After doing so, the file export worked. (The character did indeed enter my LaTeX file because of cutting and pasting from elsewhere, as Richard guessed.) Thank you very much to all for the help. Eric
