lyx doesn't support utf-8 locales very well

[Martin Ericsson]

It's possible to enter international characters in lyx using breezy's standard locale settings (*-utf8), but the following two examples show that the utf8-support is really buggy.

example #1
Open a new lyx document
Enter some non-standard character (i.e. "jag hatar åäö")
Make it a section
Choose Navigate in the menu and "åäö" will be shown as something else

example #2
Copying and pasting international characters from other application (gedit) also makes those characters unreadable.

bug workaround:
export LANG=sv_SE (or whatever language you prefer)
lyx

[Per Olofsson (pelle)]

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[Martin Ericsson (i00marer)]

It's possible to enter international characters in lyx using breezy's standard locale settings (*-utf8), but the following two examples show that the utf8-support is really buggy.

example #1
Open a new lyx document
Enter some non-standard character (i.e. "jag hatar åäö")
Make it a section
Choose Navigate in the menu and "åäö" will be shown as something else

example #2
Copying and pasting international characters from other application (gedit) also makes those characters unreadable.

bug workaround:
export LANG=sv_SE (or whatever language you prefer)
lyx

[LaserJock (laserjock)]

This is currently a wishilist bug in Debian. I have added it to the Remote Bug Watches.

[AlejandroRiveira (ariveira)]

I can confirm this in a Dapper instalation (upgraded from breezy where i have the same problem).

[Per Olofsson (pelle)]

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severity 274100 important
tags 251840 upstream
tags 291186 upstream
tags 349664 pending
tags 349665 pending

[Per Olofsson (pelle)]

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severity 291186 important

[Per Olofsson (pelle)]

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forwarded 291186 http://bugzilla.lyx.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2941

[Per Olofsson (pelle)]

Source: lyx
Source-Version: 1.5.0~beta1-1

We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
lyx, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive:

lyx-common_1.5.0~beta1-1_all.deb
  to pool/main/l/lyx/lyx-common_1.5.0~beta1-1_all.deb
lyx_1.5.0~beta1-1.diff.gz
  to pool/main/l/lyx/lyx_1.5.0~beta1-1.diff.gz
lyx_1.5.0~beta1-1.dsc
  to pool/main/l/lyx/lyx_1.5.0~beta1-1.dsc
lyx_1.5.0~beta1-1_i386.deb
  to pool/main/l/lyx/lyx_1.5.0~beta1-1_i386.deb
lyx_1.5.0~beta1.orig.tar.gz
  to pool/main/l/lyx/lyx_1.5.0~beta1.orig.tar.gz

A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.

Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed. If you
have further comments please address them to <email address hidden>,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.

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Format: 1.7
Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2007 22:48:35 +0100
Source: lyx
Binary: lyx-common lyx
Architecture: source i386 all
Version: 1.5.0~beta1-1
Distribution: experimental
Urgency: low
Maintainer: Debian LyX Maintainers <email address hidden>
Changed-By: Per Olofsson <email address hidden>
Description:
 lyx - High Level Word Processor
 lyx-common - High Level Word Processor - common files
Closes: 291186 372809 399799 412044
Changes:
 lyx (1.5.0~beta1-1) experimental; urgency=low
 .
   * Checked out upstream development snapshot.
     - TeX is not a build-dep anymore.
     - Supports UTF-8. Closes: #291186, #372809, #412044.
   * Remove support for multiple frontends. Only build the qt4 frontend,
     and place it in the lyx package.
   * Temporarily disable debug symbols (-g) because of a bug in binutils.
   * Simplify dependencies.
   * Depend on TeXlive instead of teTeX by default.
   * Remove X[BS]-Python-Version fields, not needed anymore.
   * Remove build-dep on python-dev, not needed.
   * Versioned depends on lyx-common. Closes: #399799.
Files:
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 edb46523aa82c60ab7cc4b0a0fc8ab24 10622153 editors optional lyx_1.5.0~beta1.orig.tar.gz
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[William Grant (wgrant)]

Debian currently has the beta of LyX 1.5 (which has UTF-8 support) in experimental. It looks like we'll have 1.5 final for Gutsy, so this bug will soon be fixed.

[Javier Rovegno Campos (jrovegno)]

I can confirm this in a Dapper, Edgy and Feisty instalation.
Solución para Edgy y Feisty en castellano (spanish) :
http://foros.ubuntu-cl.org/viewtopic.php?p=7970

[Bts-link-upstream (bts-link-upstream)]

#
# bts-link upstream status pull for source package lyx
# see http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2006/05/msg00001.html
#

user <email address hidden>

# remote status report for #291186
# * http://bugzilla.lyx.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2941
# * remote status changed: NEW -> RESOLVED
# * remote resolution changed: (?) -> FIXED
# * closed upstream
tags 291186 + fixed-upstream
usertags 291186 - status-NEW
usertags 291186 + status-RESOLVED resolution-FIXED

# remote status report for #338924
# * http://bugzilla.lyx.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1755
# * remote status changed: NEW -> RESOLVED
# * remote resolution changed: (?) -> FIXED
# * closed upstream
tags 338924 + fixed-upstream
usertags 338924 - status-NEW
usertags 338924 + status-RESOLVED resolution-FIXED

# remote status report for #372809
# * http://bugzilla.lyx.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2428
# * remote status changed: NEW -> RESOLVED
# * remote resolution changed: (?) -> FIXED
# * closed upstream
tags 372809 + fixed-upstream
usertags 372809 - status-NEW
usertags 372809 + status-RESOLVED resolution-FIXED

# remote status report for #412044
# * http://bugzilla.lyx.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1755
# * remote status changed: NEW -> RESOLVED
# * remote resolution changed: (?) -> FIXED
# * closed upstream
tags 412044 + fixed-upstream
usertags 412044 - status-NEW
usertags 412044 + status-RESOLVED resolution-FIXED

thanks

[Vincenzo Ciancia (vincenzo-ml)]

William: what do you mean with "we'll have 1.5 final for Gutsy"? Is someone in charge to update the package, sync with debian etc.? If not I might try to find some time now or in september (but guess that would be too late).

[William Grant (wgrant)]

lyx (1.5.0-0ubuntu1) gutsy; urgency=low

  * Sync from experimental.
  * New upstream release
    - Add proper UTF-8 Support (LP: #2513, #61698).

 -- William Grant <email address hidden> Mon, 30 Jul 2007 19:50:39 +1000

[Javier Rovegno Campos (jrovegno)]

Thanks William , Impressive job.

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