Re: Swedish letters in Lilypond lyrics?

[Simon Albrecht]

On 18.01.2016 22:03, Karin Glasmästar wrote:
> Now I found the way to what Karl wrote: I am using the built-in crude editor of 
> Lilypond itself - doesn't that editor support UTF-8?

I don’t know, I’m not even sure if there is a Linux version of it. Anybody?

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