Re: since when LilyPond supports unicode?

[Jean-Charles Malahieude]

Le 09/03/2012 18:59, Janek Warchoł disait :
> On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 6:36 PM, James<address@hidden>  wrote:
> > Janek,
> >
> > 2012/3/9 Janek Warchoł<address@hidden>:
> > > Hi.
> > >
> > > i'd like to give precise information on how long Lily supports
> > > Unicode.  I've searched "changes" on website, mailing lists and git
> > > history, but didn't find the date - can you help?
> >
> > cd $LILYPOND_GIT
> >
> > git grep unicode
> >
> > Just a quick glance shows me we mention 'stuff' in Changes around 2.10.x
November 2004 for the first appearance of utf-8/unicode

> They look like enhancements only in my opinion, and there's no entry
> in changes that would describe them:
> http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.12/Documentation/topdocs/NEWS.html
> http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.10/Documentation/topdocs/NEWS.html
> ->  ?

Is this what you mean?
LilyPond 2.6 released - June 27, 2005

Version 2.6 is the latest stable release of LilyPond. It now installs in 
a snap on Windows, MacOS X, and any version of Linux (x86). Get up and 
running in minutes! Pango text formatting lets you print Unicode lyrics 
in your favorite script and font. Create SVG files, and edit them in 
Inkscape.

/and/
January 02, 2005

LilyPond 2.5.6 was released. This is a "technology preview" release, 
which means that it has all kinds of nifty features, but is not actually 
usable for producing nicely printed scores. For this reason, an RPM of 
this release was not produced. The PS backend is now completely switched 
over to Pango/FontConfig: for -f ps, LilyPond only accepts UTF8 input, 
all text fonts are loaded through Pango, the TeX backend now offloads 
all metric computations to LaTeX, the SVG and GNOME backends are broken, 
most probably.

Cheers,
Jean-Charles