Re: Swedish letters in Lilypond lyrics?

[David Kastrup]

address@hidden writes:

> David Kastrup:
>> address@hidden writes:
> ...
>> > BTW, does someone know why add-text-replacements in attached file 
>> > doesn't work ?
>> >
>> >  I got the syntax from:
>> > http://www.gnu.org/software/guile/manual/html_node/String-Syntax.html#String-Syntax
>> 
>> That's the Guile-2.0 manual.  LilyPond uses 1.8 at the moment.
>
> Hmm, so basically it can't be done.

Nonsense.  You just need to use octal escapes for the actual UTF-8 byte
sequences.  And you'll probably need to revisit that input once
Guile-2.0 actually gets used: I don't think there is an obvious
"portable" way to do it.

-- 
David Kastrup