Re: insertion of UTF-8 characters

[Tom Cloyd]

Good lord above, yes! THIS is immediately understandable if one has 
experience with a multitude of other programming languages, whereas that 
other approach is exasperating nonsense.

Thanks, fellows, for chasing this one to ground.

t.

Trevor Daniels wrote:
> Neil Puttock wrote Tuesday, October 14, 2008 9:33 PM
>
> > Hi Trevor,
> >
> > 2008/10/14 Trevor Daniels <address@hidden>:
> > > Tom
> > >
> > > It has to be within a \markup and not in quotes.  And xc2a9 should 
> > > be 00a9.
> > >
> > > Try
> > >
> > >   c'4^\markup { #(ly:export (ly:wide-char->utf-8 #x00a9)) }
> > >
> > > or just
> > >
> > >   \markup { "Copyright 2008" #(ly:export (ly:wide-char->utf-8 
> > > #x00a9)) }
> > >
> > > outside the score block to place it in text, or for the copyright 
> > > line, try
> > >
> > >   copyright = \markup { #(ly:export (ly:wide-char->utf-8 #x00a9)) 
> > > "2008" }
> >
> > For the docs examples, I think it would be better to replace the
> > Scheme hack with \char, which uses ly:wide-char->utf-8 internally.
> >
> > c'4^\markup { \char ##xa9 }
>
> Absolutely!  This -was- documented, I now realise, in App B.8.6, but
> I hadn't met it before.  I'll change the new examples I added today to
> use it, as you suggest.  And remove the Scheme hack.  Thanks.
>
> > Regards,
> > Neil
>
> Trevor
>
>
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