Re: insertion of UTF-8 characters

[Neil Puttock]

Hi Trevor,

2008/10/14 Trevor Daniels <address@hidden>:
> Tom
>
> It has to be within a \markup and not in quotes.  And xc2a9 should be 00a9.
>
> Try
>
>   c'4^\markup { #(ly:export (ly:wide-char->utf-8 #x00a9)) }
>
> or just
>
>   \markup { "Copyright 2008" #(ly:export (ly:wide-char->utf-8 #x00a9)) }
>
> outside the score block to place it in text, or for the copyright line, try
>
>   copyright = \markup { #(ly:export (ly:wide-char->utf-8 #x00a9)) "2008" }

For the docs examples, I think it would be better to replace the
Scheme hack with \char, which uses ly:wide-char->utf-8 internally.

c'4^\markup { \char ##xa9 }

Regards,
Neil