From 99dc00b1680f8159d56610749421458274284d31 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Juergen Spitzmueller <spitz@lyx.org>
Date: Sat, 11 May 2019 11:28:53 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] RELEASE-NOTES: document encoding defaults change

---
 lib/RELEASE-NOTES | 6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

diff --git a/lib/RELEASE-NOTES b/lib/RELEASE-NOTES
index 939d854331..bc677acccf 100644
--- a/lib/RELEASE-NOTES
+++ b/lib/RELEASE-NOTES
@@ -10,6 +10,12 @@
 
 !!Documents compilation process and images conversion
 
+* LyX now uses utf8 encoding per default for all languages. This does not affect
+  existing documents. Note that LyX also does not touch personal defaults.
+  That is to say, if you still see traditional encoding preset for new documents,
+  you can change that by selecting "Unicode (utf8) [default]" and hitting "Save
+  as Documents Defaults" afterwards.
+
 * LyX defaults to the "HE8" LaTeX font encoding with Hebrew if the
   "Culmus" LaTeX fonts are installed.