Re: Swedish letters in Lilypond lyrics?

[Simon Albrecht]

Hi Karin,

first: we use to keep all the discussions on-list. Thus others may step 
in (e.g. if I cannot help with the editor you are using – which is 
likely…) or retrieve the information from the list archives.

On 18.01.2016 21:58, Karin Glasmästar wrote:
> Hi!
> Thanks for fast answer. It's just that all my å, ä, ö letters are ignored by Lilypond 
> when compiling! Here is my source and the pdf. The text should read "Det satt en mås 
> på en klyarbom och tom i krävan var kräket"... Any suggestion as to what is wrong?

The input file seems to be wrongly encoded, so you should look if you 
can find an option in your editor to save it in UTF-8 encoding.

Best, Simon



> BR,
> Karin
>
> --------------------------------------------
> Den mån 2016-01-18 skrev Simon Albrecht <address@hidden>:
>
>   Ämne: Re: Swedish letters in Lilypond lyrics?
>   Till: "Karin" <address@hidden>, address@hidden
>   Datum: måndag 18 januari 2016 21:47
>   
>   On 18.01.2016 20:33, Karin wrote:
>   > Hi!
>   >
>   > I have just recently discovered the world of Lilypond
>   and was really
>   > pleased as long as I wrote the lyrics in English. When
>   switching to Swedish
>   > I ran into trouble. There are three specific characters
>   in Swedish and only
>   > onle of them is available in the Lilypond "list of
>   special characters". I
>   > need the letters å, ä, ö, Å, Ä and Ö - or as a
>   HTML-person would put it:
>   > &aring; &auml; &ouml; &Aring;
>   &Auml; &Ouml;
>   >
>   > Can you help me fix this? I have only found &aa;
>   and &AA; which corresponds
>   > to the HTML-ish &aring; and &Aring;
>   
>   As Karl pointed out: the easiest way is to just include them
>   plain into
>   your input file, since LilyPond has no problem with UTF-8
>   input.
>   In case you should really need ASCII-only input for whatever
>   reason,
>   there’s the markup command \char:
>   \markup\concat { \char ##x00E4 \char ##x00F6 \char ##x00C4
>   \char ##x00D6 }
>   
>   HTH, Simon