Re: Escape sequence for accentuated characters?

[Jan Nieuwenhuizen]

Raphael Manfredi writes:

> My system is a non-UTF8 system (ISO-latin-1)

I do not believe that there is such a thing.  Just install a utf-8
aware editor, eg, any reasonably modern emacs, jedit or vim.

> I can type iso-latin-1

Then try the recode program

  recode latin1..utf8 foo.ly

> , but apparently this is not understood by 2.6.3,
> whereaas it worked correctly in 2.4.5.

or use convert-ly, that will recode for you.

> So, what's the way to type pure ASCII accentuated letters in lilypond?

That's not supported.  You'll have to find/write a recoding program
that translates into utf-8, if that's what you really want.

Jan.

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