Re: insertion of UTF-8 characters

[Jonathan Kulp]

Try copying this character in there:

©

I tried the way the docs say, as well, and never got it to work.  I 
found that if I just copied an actual copyright symbol into my files and 
made sure the editor was saving in utf-8 encoding, it all worked fine.

Jon

Tom Cloyd wrote:
> forgot this: I'm running Ly 2.11.60, on Kubuntu Linux 8.04.1
>
> Tom Cloyd wrote:
> > The documentation [/Lilypond notation reference.pdf/, “3.3.3 Text 
> > encoding”, pdf p. 318.] states that UTF-8 coding is used in Ly and 
> > that UTF-8 hex codes can be inserted into text. An example is given, 
> > and I show it here using the code of interest to me - that for the 
> > Copyright sign:
> >
> > #(ly:export (ly:wide-char->utf-8 #xc2a9))|
> >
> > |This example has no context, and when I put it in one I cannot get it 
> > to work. I suggest that the documentation be modified to give one. 
> > Meanwhile, I need a solution to the problem of how to insert a 
> > Copyright sign into the copyright line. Here's what I tried:
> >
> > \header {...
> > copyright = "#(ly:export (ly:wide-char->utf-8 #xc2a9)) 2008"
> > ...
> >
> > It produced this in the PDF output:
> >
> > #(ly:export (ly:wide-char->utf-8 #xc2a9)) 2008
> >
> > Placing the UTF code export line outside of the quotes wouldn't even 
> > compile.
> >
> > Can anyone suggest how to do this?
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> > Tom
> >
> >
> > ||

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