Re: letters like é

[David Kastrup]

Werner LEMBERG <address@hidden> writes:

>>> For single-byte encodings, you are correct.  However, the
>>> probability is *much* higher if you consider legacy two-byte
>>> encodings for CJK scripts.
>> 
>> The probability of people accidentally writing two-byte encodings for
>> CJK scripts in an ASCII-based programming language and being totally
>> surprised by coding issues is not all that high.
>
> ???  I thought we take about strings like lyrics.
>
>> I also consider it much much more likely that somebody unused to
>> coding problems tries getting just a composer's name right in a
>> Latin script is higher than with Chinese letters.  It is much easier
>> to make your computer produce a diacritical Latin letter foreign to
>> you (like with using a Compose key) than produce a Chinese letter.
>> 
>> So I don't really see the point in giving up before trying.
>
> Again, as mentioned previously in another mail in this thread: If
> Pango reports an invalid UTF-8 sequence (as it already does), I'm all
> for it to make it more visible.  What kind of improvement do you
> envision?

UTF-8 is Lilypond's _input_ encoding.  There is no point in leaving it
to its backends to complain.

-- 
David Kastrup