Re: Hebrew Lyrics

[Richard Schoeller]

Joerg,

All of those characters are in Latin 1.  Latin 1 is ASCII plus the
western European characters.  It has single-byte characters 1-255. 
UTF-8 contains those characters too, but in UTF-8 those are 2-byte
characters.  There is no need to use UTF-8 to get them.

It would seem to me that making LilyPond handle UTF-8 (ie: byte-stream
Unicode) for the left-to-right cases would be fairly straightforward. 
It would rely primarily on existence of fonts and of support in TeX. 
OTOH, doing bidi or even plain right-to-left would be much harder
because it would challenge more of the assumptions in the layout engine.

Dick

On Tue, 2004-02-03 at 11:17, Joerg Anders wrote:
> On Tue, 3 Feb 2004, Aaron wrote:
> 
> > >is an alternative way. Instead of special LilyPond configuration I could 
> > >also
> > >use Unicode character coding and prepend the special directives from your 
> > >page:
> > >
> > I have no idea boy I wish this were the case, but if it takes Unicode 
> > why would the scheme stuff be needed? I may be wrong it may need bidi 
> > support or calling freebidi.
> 
> On Tue, 3 Feb 2004, Mats Bengtsson wrote:
> 
> > As Aaron already as said, part of the problem with Hebrew is that
> > it's written right to left instead of left to right, that's why he
> > has to use elatex instead of latex.
> > 
> > When it comes to unicode, I'm afraid it would require lots of work
> > to make LilyPond support unicode.
> 
> I have a very simple question. At http://www.geocities.com/aamehl/
> I see (pehaps wrong at my isolatin browser):
> 
>       \relative d' {}
>           }
>           \context Lyrics \apply #(text-augment "\\R{" "}") \lyrics {
> 
>       äîáãéì áéï ÷åãù áéï
> What is it ^^^^^^^^^^^^  ? It is not UTF-8. In my opinion it is Unicode.(?)
> Or at least these are ASCII numbers with 7th bit == 1.
> 
> And still a simple question to Aaron: Do you see Hebrew letters on
> NoteEdit board? Actually it should work, because I make no assumptions
> about the character set. 
> 
>       And if so: If you export to LilyPond and you add the
>       directives from http://www.geocities.com/aamehl, does
>       this result in Hebrew LilyPond output?
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