Re: How can I avoid unicode and use Latin1?

[Jan Nieuwenhuizen]

>> A. LilyPond actually _does_ support the Latin1 character set, as Latin1
>> and Unicode coincide on the first 256 codepoints.
>
> I don't quite see that.  If I put an e-acute (a byte of decimal value
> #233) in a LilyPond file, it is skipped -- it does not appear in the PDF
> output.  I have to put in the unicode equivalent, which is the two bytes
> #195 #169 (where 169 = 233 - 64) in order for LilyPond to give me an
> e-acute.

Yes, that is called Encoding.

>> B. LilyPond does not support Latin1 encoding. This is because

Jan.

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