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Re: wide-char is wide


From: Trevor Daniels
Subject: Re: wide-char is wide
Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2009 14:38:10 -0000


Robin Bannister wrote Wednesday, March 25, 2009 12:46 PM

Where NR 3.3.3 is talking about \char it says
The following example shows UTF-8 coded characters being used
which got me typing in a UTF-8 byte pair after the ##x. But, of course, it is more like UTF-32. In fact, referring to UTF-32 would make it easier to google for these high code points.

No, the manual is correct.  LilyPond uses UTF-8.

UTF-8 is a variable-length encoding for Unicode in which the common characters are encoded in 8 bits and the less common in 16, 24 or 32 bits.

UTF-32 is an encoding which uses exactly 32 bits for
every code point.

However, I agree the description of \char in the
manual could be clearer.  It needs to indicate the
hex string is a variable length dependent on the
character being encoded.  I'll fix it.
Trevor





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