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When I type some Romanian characters (ș and ț, to be more specific) in LibreOffice and in LyX, they are not displayed. I just see blank spaces, nothing shows up. However, the same characters are displayed when I type them into Terminal or vim, nano, etc. (I have openSUSE 11.4). Any suggestion might help. Thank you!

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Did you install any fonts to obtain this where it is displayed? You may have to install a font update to accommodate the use of comma diacritics. – Werner Aug 18 '11 at 18:45
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The problem is that it doesn't display the characters ș and ț when I use specific fonts like Times New Roman and Arial. I can use substitutes for s with comma and t with comma (the ones with cedilla), but it is not correct. I've googled this and found that others have similar problems (e.g. ș and ț are displayed differently from other characters in fonts like Arial or Times New Roman). To obtain them I press Right-Alt and s/t respectively, this is the keyboard setting for Linux. It works in Firefox (when I select Times New Roman Font), so I am not sure if the font is the problem. – chimil Aug 29 '11 at 15:48
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Sorry to have seen the question only now; the problem might be in what you use for typesetting: is it XeLaTeX or LaTeX? In the latter case you should pass the option [utf8x] to inputenc, as [utf8] doesn't support the comma-below accent. – egreg Mar 3 '12 at 22:39
Do you mean that they don't appear in the PDF (as @egreg's answer relate to), or in LyX's main window? – Torbjørn T. Mar 4 '12 at 21:04
In LyX and in LibreOffice. – chimil Mar 9 '12 at 11:26

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The problem might be in what you use for typesetting: is it XeLaTeX or LaTeX?

In the former case the font might not have the glyphs corresponding to ș and ț.

In the latter case you should pass the option [utf8x] to inputenc, as [utf8] doesn't support the comma-below accent.

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I use XeLaTex, but that's not the issue. Itøs about how they are displayed in LyX and LibreOffice. – chimil Mar 9 '12 at 11:24
@chimil If you use XeLaTeX, then make sure that the font you're using has the glyphs. Maybe somebody can point to a program that you can use on OpenSUSE in order to look up in fonts. It's not clear if the problem is in the printed version or in the LyX preview. – egreg Mar 9 '12 at 11:27
I used fontmatrix. Maybe after I'll upgrade to 12.2 it will make a difference. I will mark this as solved, even though I haven't fixed the issue. Thanks for your reply. – chimil Mar 9 '12 at 14:04

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