Re: since when LilyPond supports unicode?

[Janek Warchoł]

On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 7:12 PM, Jean-Charles Malahieude
<address@hidden> wrote:
> 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.

Yes, that's what i need.  Thanks!
Janek