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From: "Graham Percival" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "bears388" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: <lilypond-user@gnu.org>
Sent: Tuesday, May 23, 2006 4:50 PM
Subject: Re: German text characters
On 23-May-06, at 3:39 AM, bears388 wrote:
Downloaded the 2.8.2 Manual, and found the entries the same. I also got a
unicode character set, but no matter what I try, writing the characters
in unicode and saving them as utf-8 and then cutting and pasting,I cannot
get the umlauts on any letters that need them. Other people manage this,
why can't I?
I'm using Version 2.6.5 and MS Notepad to enter code. Do I need a higher
version of Lilypond, or another editor? If so, which? No one else has
answered my request except you!
I don't use windows, so I can't help with windows software. Please search
the mailist archives for "notepad" or "utf-8 text editor" or something
like that. This question has been discussed a few times, but I never
really paid attention. Depending on your version of windows, I think that
there's an option in the notepad preferences that let you select "save as
utf-8".
That is correct, I use XP. Since Lilypond 2.6 you can use special characters
simply by saving the lilypond files in UTF-8 encoding. In NotePad choose
Save AS... and click on the dropdown menu for Encoding. Choose UTF-8 instead
of ANSI.
I also like to use jEdit for this, however. The difference is that you can
make UTF-8 encoding the default if you use jEdit. I don't think you can
change NotePad's default behavior of saving everything as ANSI initially,
although it respects and preserves whatever text format it is in after you
change it.
Stephen
Cheers,
- Graham
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