Maurits Lamers <maur...@weidestraat.nl> writes: > Hi, > > I am writing an extension to lilypond to support generating some basic > braille inside an includable .ly file. > I am trying to map the characters of lyric events into a set of braille dots. > One of the issues I have is that I have trouble finding a way to do > this with characters which seem to be multi-byte. > In this case, these character are defined in text mode as > > "’s He" > > I have tried quite a few ways of simply getting 5 characters, but the > first one (which I found out through other means) has charcode 8217. > None of the functions I could find works to get this character as one > character, as it seems that even integer->char only allows values > between 0 and 255.
Characters in Guile 1.8 are bytes. Where it the problem? > I have fiddled with ly:wide-char->utf-8 and ly:encode-string-for-pdf > but that doesn't bring much either. \markup \char #5000 And it's not like \markup #(ly:wide-char->utf-8 5000) wouldn't work. You just have to work with strings instead of characters. > Because of other limitations, it has to be compatible with Lilypond > 2.14. A really bad idea. > I have a big assoc list which contains the mapping, so I would like to > be able to perform (assoc-ref mymapping (symbol char)) to do the > lookup > What would be the best way of achieving this with multi-byte > characters? Use strings. assoc-ref can work with them. -- David Kastrup _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
