LyX ⇒ Can not use "sharp s"

[blubbi]

Hello,

I'm using LyX since a few days now to write my thesis. Because I'm German I need to be able to write the 'ß' ("sharp s") character. Here is my current preamble:

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%% LyX 2.0.8.1 created this file.  For more info, see http://www.lyx.org/.
%% Do not edit unless you really know what you are doing.
\documentclass[12pt,ngerman]{scrreprt}
\renewcommand{\rmdefault}{cmr}
\renewcommand{\familydefault}{\rmdefault}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[a4paper]{geometry}
\geometry{verbose,bmargin=3cm,lmargin=2.5cm,rmargin=2.5cm,footskip=3cm}
\pagestyle{plain}
\usepackage{babel}
\usepackage{textcomp}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{setspace}
\usepackage[numbers]{natbib}
\usepackage{nomencl}
% the following is useful when we have the old nomencl.sty package
\providecommand{\printnomenclature}{\printglossary}
\providecommand{\makenomenclature}{\makeglossary}
\makenomenclature
\onehalfspacing
\usepackage[unicode=true,
 bookmarks=true,bookmarksnumbered=true,bookmarksopen=false,
 breaklinks=false,pdfborder={0 0 1},backref=false,colorlinks=false]
 {hyperref}
\hypersetup{pdftitle={Title},
 pdfauthor={Name}}

\makeatletter

%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% LyX specific LaTeX commands.
\newcommand{\noun}[1]{\textsc{#1}}
%% Because html converters don't know tabularnewline
\providecommand{\tabularnewline}{\\}

%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% User specified LaTeX commands.
\usepackage{amsmath,
amsfonts,
amssymb,
amstext}

\usepackage{graphicx}

\usepackage{url}

\usepackage{charter}
\usepackage[scaled=.92]{helvet}
\usepackage{courier}
\usepackage{microtype}

\makeatother

According to http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/MissingUnicodeCharacters the 'ß' character should be supported, but in the compiled document 'SS' is used instead. So is there anything wrong with my preamble?

Thanks in advance

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi,

welcome to the forum!

It seems that inputenc is missing. You should use it in case of pdfLaTeX. There may be a setting in LyX, or add in your document properties to the document preamble:

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\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}

Stefan

[blubbi]

Okay, I looked through the document settings once again and found the language option, where I selected ucs-extended utf8x. It really was just a click. Thank you!

[Johannes_B]

LyX is using latin9 encoding by default.

[Stefan Kottwitz]

I would recommend utf8 instead of utf8x, the latter is just better for some Asian languages.

Stefan