Encoding errors in german l10n

[frederik.elwert@…]

I just installed lyx-gtk 1.4.0 on my Ubuntu Breezy system. Looks fine, but the
german Umlaute are displayed falsely. Seems to be an encoding error, since the
Umlaute are replaced with two characters: ü=ü, etc. This often happens when
opening UTF-8 encoded files with iso-8859-1 or so.

[spray]

This is related to #1954.

[spray]

Have backed out patch from #1954. Menus and toolbars at least should work in
current subversion - they do for me in ubuntu/de_DE.UTF8

[frederik.elwert@…]

I have just installed the 1.4.1 ubuntu packages from the lyx homepage. The
problem still exists: Umlaute are displayed falsely and in the console there
is this error message:

Locale de_DE could not be set

[ehmsen@…]

Any news on this?
It also happens with the qt frontend, so it is not entirely the same as #1954.

[spray]

Altering component, since this is not gtk-specific.

I don't think this is terribly likely to get worked on before the overall
unicode transition.

[Georg Baum]

If it happens also in qt the reason is probably that you don't have the
de_DE.iso88591 locale. This is indicated by the message "Locale de_DE could not
be set". Create this locale with the locale-gen or localedef command, and it
should work.

[ehmsen@…]

My problem was indeed caused by the user lacking the proper locales.
Thanks for pointing that out to me!
So it seems to be a gtk-frontend thing after all, so someone with higher
"powers" than me might want to change Component back to gtk-frontend. :)

[michael.gerz@…]

This bug refers to the GTK frontend which is no longer supported in 1.5.0.

Moreover, since GTK bugs will no longer be fixed in the 1.4.X, I mark this bug
report as WONTFIX.

[michael.gerz@…]

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