After months of work, I just finished setting a long piece for piano, using
the example
LES NÉRÉIDES given in http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.5/examples.html as a
template.
This uses dynamics between the two staves,
\score {
\new PianoStaff
\new Staff = upper \upper
\new
I finally found one combination of programs that work. If I open the file
using gedit from konsole, the accented characters look like they are
supposed to in the editor, and lilypond is happy too.
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I am trying to put french accents into my lyrics, and I am able to enter
these characters in the .ly file, but lilypond is not able to process it
correctly.
I suspect that my editors (on linux) are not saving the file with correct
UTF-8 encoding. I tried with nedit, pico, and vi. Does anyone
thanks for your response, Graydon. Since my post I did further
investigation, and you're right; I was mistaken in thinking that the
characters I was inserting were in the UTF-8 encoding. I am using debian
testing, and just installed the latest stable lilypond. I generated the
characters with
