Re: Vowel with Umlaut

[David Rogers]

"GRAEME F ST CLAIR" <address@hidden> writes:

> Like I said - "simple" - the editor is Textpad under Windows 7, 
> and it has an "encoding" save option of "UTF-8"...  Job done, 
> thank you. 
>
> I had trouble with UTF encoding in an earlier little project 
> (SQL & PHP), and ended up using raw data in ANSI, then mangling 
> it as it went through.  So I'd kind of ignored the option ever 
> since.

Different projects (I mean SQL or others vs. Lilypond, not 
different projects in Lilypond itself) may respond better to a 
different choice of encodings. That's the main reason your editor 
has the options it has.

Always choose UTF-8 for Lilypond - for other types of projects, 
choose whatever works correctly for them. (Often, the authors of 
the software in question will have made recommendations on what is 
expected to work and/or not work with their files.)

In very general terms, it shouldn't be right to be "mangling" 
encodings by hand in *any* kind of project. It should be possible 
to find an encoding that does the job correctly the first 
time. That's what computers are for... 


--
David