On Wed, Feb 15, 2006 at 17:51:47 -0500, jouke hijlkema wrote: > #! /bin/sh > export LANG=C > exec lyx1.4-3 > > that works fine when launched from an xterm, however if I add it as a > menu item in xfce it the encoding is not taken into account. Is there a > workaround or a trick to do this ? env LANG=C lyx1.4-3 should help -tobbi