Re: Hebrew, UTF-8, etc.

[Mats Bengtsson]

Nahum Wengrov wrote:

> > > > Is there a known bug in Notepad concerning UTF-8, or is it UTF-8 
> > > > encoding incompatible with Lilypond?
> > > >        
> > On the contrary, LilyPond only knows about UTF-8, since version 2.6.0, 
> > see the manual.
> >    
>
> I was asking if Notepad's UTF-8 encoding is incompatible with Lilypond.
>
>  
I have only tried it with characters such as åäöÅÄÖßü, that
are also included in Latin1, but for those it has worked
excellently.

>...

> Thanks, I'm already using Notepad2 for files having unicode. Seems not to be
> working well with Hebrew though.
>
>  
That might rather have something to do with the font
handling. If you search the mailing list archives, you
will find a number of emails related to Hebrew lyrics,
hopefully you can find some more hints there.

 /Mats