Text encoding

[Ed Baskerville]

Hi all,

I have a few questions/clarifications about text encoding in LilyPond. 
These are are covered to some extent in the list archives and in the 
docs, but I wanted to check with the list to get the most accurate 
information from the horses' mouths...

(1) This is what I'm getting from the lilypond-user and lilypond-devel 
archives: LilyPond 2.4.x and earlier use ISO Latin1 as the native 
encoding, and 2.5+ are using UTF-8. Therefore, a LilyPond previewer 
ideally should detect the version of LilyPond being used and output the 
right encoding accordingly. Is this accurate?

(2) Aside from one allusion in section 10.2.2 (perhaps out of date?) 
the \encoding command has been expunged from the 2.5 documentation, and 
the section entitled "Text encoding" makes it sound like UTF-8 is the 
only way to go. Does that mean that \encoding is no longer supported? 
What about \encoded-simple?

(3) Is TeX encoding gone too? If not, how do you access it? (I have no 
particular use for it; for this one I'm just curious.)

Thanks much,
Ed