LyX ⇒ Problems with bibliography entry in french

[eurogeek]

Hi friends,

I am writing a document in english using document class "Article(AMS)". I have an entry in by .bib file which has french characters. But Lyx throws an error saying T1 or OT1 encoding cant handle some command or the instead of the french accented characters, some junk symbols are displayed. Any pointers on how to correct this? I am not an expert user of linux.

Thanks,
eurogeek

[frabjous]

It's just one entry? Can you post it here? The easiest thing would probably be to replace the characters with the corresponding LaTeX codes, surrounded in braces, e.g.:

author = {Ren\'{e} Descartes},
title = {Discours de la M\'{e}thode},

etc.