I've just encountered this as well, when I copied in a URL title which had the wrong type of quote in it...
Cheers, Tim Manveru wrote: > > Dears, > > It is possible that I should put this on developers list too, but I > didn't. > If any of you it is worth, please do. > > I was fighting with my report and when I click "View PDF (pdflatex)" > icon... > nothing happened. LyX 1.5.4 under Windows. > > Remembering a few times from this lists when someone advices to run > lyxc.exe > from cmd, I do that. > > Console shows: > Error 42 returned from iconv when converting from UCS-4LE to ISO-8859-2: > Illegal > byte sequence > Converted input: > Stopped at: 0x03b2 > Unconverted input: > Converted output: > File 'C:/Documents and Settings/Manveru/Ustawienia > lokalne/Temp/lyx_tmpdir3416a0 > 5128/lyx_tmpbuf0/spr5.tex' was not closed properly. > > Then I open that not properly closed file and look at the end. That points > me a place where I have wrong character (beta character instead of \beta > command). I think that LyX should handle this case and show error message > showing the description and last few words of wrongly converted file. This > would be much more helpful to the user than nothing (as currently LyX > without console do in such situation). > > Is this a LyX bug?? > > If it is an iconv problem, that a really a problem. Wrong error handling > in > library is vary bad situation for developers. > > Cheers! > -- > Manveru > jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > gg: 1624001 > http://www.manveru.pl > > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Is-this-a-known-bug--tp17114078p17713184.html Sent from the LyX - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
