Re: strange error message - cannot open .ly file

Thank you David,simon, Jacques & Thomas:

Turn out it was the file name that cause the problem.

As suggest by David,

1.. I rename the .ly file not using any utf-8 code and it complies fine.

2.. I change the first utf-8 character "禱" to another "主" and the file complies fine as well

3.. the file name with utf-8 "禱" when comply generate the strange error -- no version statement found.

Question: can be be resolved? Or nothing we can do?

Immanuel,

ming.

From: David Wright <address@hidden>
To: MING TSANG <address@hidden>
Cc: Lilypond-user Mailinglist <address@hidden>
Sent: Friday, October 30, 2015 9:38 AM
Subject: Re: strange error message - cannot open .ly file

On Fri 30 Oct 2015 at 00:01:44 (+0000), MING TSANG wrote:
> Hi lilyponders:

Hi, please post text, not HTML, and if you can't avoid that, please
post source code etc as attachments rather than inline.

> Frecobaldi can open the file, yet when I hit to run lilypond, I got strange
> error message:
>
> Starting lilypond-windows.exe 2.19.29 [06_prayer-willing_禱願.ly]...
> Processing `K:/��/06_prayer-willing_�/�.ly'
> Parsing...
> warning: cannot open file: `K:/��/06_prayer-willing_�/�.ly'
> K:/粤曲/06_prayer-willing_?願.ly:1: warning: no \version statement found,
> please add
> \version "2.19.29"
> for future compatibility
> Success: compilation successfully completed
> Completed successfully in 0.7".

Well I can't see any evidence that LP compiled anything: nothing of
any substance occurs before the "Success" line.

So it looks as if your filenames are defeating either the operating
system or the application that you're using. It might be worth using
filenames containing only ASCII characters to see if the problem
goes away. Using Unicode *within* the source should be OK: I get some
likely-looking glyphs when I compile your source in 2.18.2.

Cheers,
David.

From:	MING TSANG
Subject:	Re: strange error message - cannot open .ly file
Date:	Fri, 30 Oct 2015 14:03:30 +0000 (UTC)