Re: Text encoding

[Han-Wen Nienhuys]

Op zo, 24-04-2005 te 12:06 -0700, schreef Ed Baskerville:
> Hi all,
> 
> I have a few questions/clarifications about text encoding in LilyPond. 
> These are are covered to some extent in the list archives and in the 
> docs, but I wanted to check with the list to get the most accurate 
> information from the horses' mouths...
> 
> (1) This is what I'm getting from the lilypond-user and lilypond-devel 
> archives: LilyPond 2.4.x and earlier use ISO Latin1 as the native 
> encoding, and 2.5+ are using UTF-8. Therefore, a LilyPond previewer 
> ideally should detect the version of LilyPond being used and output the 
> right encoding accordingly. Is this accurate?
> 
> (2) Aside from one allusion in section 10.2.2 (perhaps out of date?) 
> the \encoding command has been expunged from the 2.5 documentation, and 
> the section entitled "Text encoding" makes it sound like UTF-8 is the 
> only way to go. Does that mean that \encoding is no longer supported? 
> What about \encoded-simple?

forget about supporting 2.4. By the time you get you'll get the first
version of your tool out, we'll probably be well on our way into
2.7 :-) 

> (3) Is TeX encoding gone too? 

yup

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