Re: symbols in lyrics

[David Kastrup]

benluo <address@hidden> writes:

> On 27/12/2011 00:40, Xavier Scheuer wrote:
>> On 26 December 2011 16:57, Martien Houët<address@hidden>  wrote:
>>> My text editor is OK.
>>> But I don't understand "save the file in UTF-8"
>>> Is it an extension, a map, a programm?
>> LilyPond handles accents etc. very well because it proceeds text files
>> encoded in UTF-8 (that's a text character encoding).
>> Hence the problem should come from your text editor that either does
>> not handle UTF-8 encoding, either supports it but you did not save your
>> .ly file in UTF-8 encoding.
>>
>> What text editor do you use?
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Xavier
>>
>> PS: Reply to all in order to keep this discussion in the lilypond-user
>> mailing list.
>
> UTF-8 is must-have feature for Chinese user like me. But for ASCII
> only users, they don't care.

His name is written with diacritic letters, and those were encoded in
utf-8 in his original mail to the list.  So he hardly counts as an
"ASCII only" user.

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David Kastrup