Bug#372809: [Pkg-lyx-devel] Bug#372809: lyx-qt: GUI has wrong encoding (displays UTF-8 as if it where ANSI)

[Per Olofsson]

Eike Sauer:
> The interpretation of the GUI texts' encoding is wrong.
> It looks like it is UTF-8 but gets interpreted as ANSI/
> ISO-8859-1/Whatever. See attached screen shot.

The problem is that LyX doesn't support UTF-8, and the locale you are
running is an UTF-8 locale. A workaround is to generate the
de_DE.ISO-8859-1 locale using "dpkg-reconfigure locales" (you don't
have to set it as default).

Obviously LyX needs to get UTF-8 support upstream at some point...

-- 
Pelle