Re: Lyrics having characters with accents

[Mats Bengtsson]

The Unicode support in LilyPond was introduced in version 2.5.x.
According to the log printouts you have copied below, you use version 2.4.6
which is very old and only supports Latin1 characters.

   /Mats

Daniel Boronka wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am trying to write a piece with Romanian Lyrics. I need these 
> letters in the stanzas:
>
>  â ş ă î and ţ
>
> I'm using Windows XP which has Notepad and the option to save as UFT-8 
> encoding. I am just copying and pasting these letters into my .ly 
> file. I had no problems with German characters, umlauts and  β, and I 
> did not need the UFT-8 encoding.
>
> I am using Lilypond version 2.6.4 (I think. How can I check that?). 
> Everytime I try to process a UFT-8 encoded .ly file I get this error 
> message:
>
> PDF output not found. Error log:
> GNU Lilypond 2.4.6
> Processing 'song.ly'
> Parsing...
> A full log is in the file song.log
>
> I've also tried different text editors, (including Notepad2) but I 
> don't see an UFT-8 encoding option. Does anyone have any ideas or 
> suggestions?
>
> Daniel Boronka
>
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