Re: Issue 1073 in lilypond: convert-ly and accented characters

[lilypond]

Comment #7 on issue 1073 by address@hidden: convert-ly and accented  
characters
http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=1073

I think it would be useful to have a description of the bug right here.   
The problem arises from convert-ly or midi2ly commands when they are given  
as argument a filename which contains any accented character.

For example

  convert-ly minué.ly

or

  midi2ly minué.midi

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output from convert-ly is

convert-ly (GNU LilyPond) 2.13.55
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/bin/convert-ly", line 369, in <module>
    main ()
  File "/usr/local/bin/convert-ly", line 356, in main
    do_one_file (f)
  File "/usr/local/bin/convert-ly", line 243, in do_one_file
    ly.stderr_write (_ ("Processing `%s\'... ") % infile_name)
UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc3 in position 4:  
ordinal not in range(128)

----

output from midi2ly is

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/bin/midi2ly", line 1207, in <module>
    main ()
  File "/usr/local/bin/midi2ly", line 1204, in main
    convert_midi (f, o)
  File "/usr/local/bin/midi2ly", line 1047, in convert_midi
    progress (_ ("%s output to `%s'...") % ('LY', out_file))
UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc3 in position 4:  
ordinal not in range(128)