Re: BOM mark from Windows notepad

[Hans Aberg]

On 12 Nov 2009, at 12:34, Francisco Vila wrote:

> > The attached LY file was created in Windows Notepad, saved in UTF-8
> > encoding, and I compiled it on Linux with no errors or warnings.
> >
> > Do you see an error message when compiling this file?  If so, can you
> > post the error?
>
> I'm afraid I cannot reproduce it with your file.  I see the white
> rectangle with emacs, as I saw on the others which give errors, but
> right now I don't keep those problematic files.

On Mac OS X 10.5.8, I can see it using 'less'; it looks like:
<U+FEFF>\version "2.12.1"

{ c }

But emacs 23.1.1 does not show it at all.

It compiled using lilypond 2.13.7.

> Please keep on touch
> until I get a sample again from one of my students.

Perhaps they created it in another encoding, and the filled the file  
with UTF-8?

  Hans