Re: Still \char # problem..

[Han-Wen Nienhuys]

address@hidden wrote:
> People using SToccata.TTF or other non-unicode symbol fonts would find it
> helpful to be able to specify the character they want using \char #137
> for example.
>
> Beyond that, \char is an existing feature; if its behaviour were
> consistent with LilyPond's switch to utf-8, then people who needed only a
> few accented letters from time to time could write \char #50089 to get
> e-acute, or the corresponding number to get some character from the Czech,
> Romanian, etc. alphabet.


I was confused a little; there is also a back-end command char, which 
does not and cannot work any longer since the switch to pango.
However, try using

\markup {
  #(ly:export (ly:wide-char->utf-8 137))
}


Hmmm... maybe I could change the implementation of \char to use that.

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