Re: Problem with non-ASCII characters

[Ari Constancio]

Bingo!

$ file test.ly
test.ly:  ISO-8859 English text

After setting M-x prefer-coding-system (in Emacs) to utf-8, everything was fine.
So, after all, in spite of the misleading sentences in the docs, if
the editor is correctly set for UTF-8, it works great.

Thanks again,
Ari Constancio

On 9/21/06, Mats Bengtsson <address@hidden> wrote:
> I noted that text in the manual after sending the previous response, but
> my comment is actually relevant for the tex backend as well, so we should
> remove that misleading information from the manual.
>
> My guess is that you didn't manage to save your file in UTF8 encoding,
> but it could also be that you don't have the necessary fonts (or at least
> that LilyPond/Pango doesn't know about them).
>
> If you run the command
> file test.ly
> it should say something like:
> test.ly: UTF-8 Unicode English text
> If it doesn't mention UTF-8 then you failed to persuade Emacs to use
> the correct encoding.
>
> You could also try to download and process the example utf-8.ly
> from the Regression Tests document (just make sure to remove the
> line \include "lilypond-book-preamble.ly" at the top of the file first).
>
>    /Mats