Thanks jurgen , it worked!
Thanks for your cooperation and explanation.
wont it be possible to change the converter to not assume things and detect
the encoding from the doc itself?
On Mon, Oct 1, 2012 at 6:20 PM, Jürgen Spitzmüller <sp...@lyx.org> wrote:
> Aliabbas Petiwala wrote:
> > i have attached the same
>
> OK, first the solution and then an explanation.
>
> Solution:
>
> in coling2012.tex, insert
> \usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
> immediately after the \documentclass... line.
>
> Then re-import the file to LyX. This should solve the problem.
>
> Explanation:
>
> tex2lyx, LyX's tex converter, relies on the inputenc call in order to
> determine the encoding of the latex file. If this line is missing, tex2lyx
> assumes the encoding is latin1. This happens in your case. The file,
> however,
> is encoded in utf8, and thus some glyphs are imported wrongly, which
> triggers
> the error.
>
> HTH
> Jürgen
>
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