-Known issues with version 1.5.0beta1
---------------------------------
+This file lists interface changes that might affect users in 1.5.0 and
+also some known problems in LyX 1.5.0 that did not occur in
+1.4.5. Note that fixes are available for many of these, but they have
+not yet been applied because of incomplete testing.
-This file describes some known problems in LyX 1.5.0beta1 that did not
-occur in 1.4.4. Note that fixes are available for many of these, but
-they have not yet been applied because of incomplete testing.
-- Under certain circunstances lyx crashes when generating the latex
- file (see bug #2696)
+Interface changes
+-----------------
+
+Some of the LyX functions have changed names :
+
+
+Known issues with version 1.5.0
+------------------------------------
+
+- User layout files must be converted to UTF-8
+
+In previous versions, layout styles were allowed to use non-ASCII names
+using the local encodings. LyX-1.5 now assumes that all layout files are
+UTF-8 encoded. This means that non-ASCII style names are still allowed
+but they must be valid UTF-8 strings. One way of doing the conversion
+is to use iconv. Using bash, the script below should work:
+
+#! /bin/sh
+
+cd /path/to/layouts
+for l in *
+do
+ cp "$l" tmp.txt
+ iconv -f latin1 -t utf8 tmp.txt -o "$l"
+done
+rm -f tmp.txt
+
+- Cursor restoration problems with Multiple-View
+
+When using multiple Windows to edit different parts of the
+same document, the cursor position is sometimes not correctly restored
+when you switch from one view to the other.
+
+- Languages/encodings and insets
+
+One of the bugs fixed in LyX 1.5.0 is that previously, there were certain
+specific cases in which the LaTeX generated did not correctly reflect
+language/encoding transitions in and around insets (footnotes, LyX notes).
+After much deliberation, it was decided not to change older files such that
+they will still reflect the old LaTeX output; rather, they will now correctly
+reflect the situation as it appears in the GUI. This means, however, that if
+you mangled the text in the GUI in the older versions, in order that it
+generate the correct LaTeX output, the LaTeX will now generate the mangled
+text. If this is problematic for you, please get in touch with us on the
+developers mailing list, we do have some possible solutions for this.
+
+The effects of this will be more pronounced for RTL (Hebrew, Arabic, Farsi)
+users --- though they affect users of other languages as well.
+
+- Inset encodings and Conversion from earlier LyX versions
+
+One of the main new features in version 1.5.0 is Unicode. As part of the
+transition, lyx2lyx (the scripts used for converting back and forth between
+different versions of the lyx files) converts old .lyx files, which may use
+a number of different encodings, to UTF-8. This conversion depends on
+correctly identifying the language of the text. There were previously some
+edge-cases (insets embedded in different-language text type scenarios) in
+which the language was incorrectly identified, which caused some text to
+appear incorrectly after having upgraded from older versions. This has now been
+fixed. Unfortunately, however, the fix cannot be applied to files which have
+already been converted past format 249. So if you have already converted
+your old files (using a development version or release candidate), this fix
+won't help, unless you still have the originals lying around (and haven't
+yet made too many changes to the newer versions ;) ).
+
+Generally, it is probably wise to keep a backup of the old version of your
+files, at least until you are sure that the upgrade went smoothly (which it
+almost always will).
+
+- RTL and keymaps
+
+Currently there is a bug where you can't use two non-RTL language keymaps if
+the RTL preference is set (which is now the default). If you need to use two
+non-RTL keymaps, for now you should just turn off the RTL preference (Tools ->
+Preferences... -> Language settings -> Language, uncheck "Right-to-left
+language support").
+
+We hope to offer more comprehensive support for multiple keymaps in the future,
+which will solve this bug, as well as allow more than just two keymaps. If you
+have any input on this issue, please chime in on the developers mailing list,
+or add your comments to http://bugzilla.lyx.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4051.
+
+
+Note: There may later be an updated list of known issues online at
+ http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/ReleaseNotes
+
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