Re: LilyPond dies silently if file starts with UTF-8 character

[Graham Percival]

Thanks,
http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=134

- Graham

Mats Bengtsson wrote:
> Hi,
>
> By mistake, I happened to insert a character like "é" at the top level of a
> .ly file and to my surprise, LilyPond dies silently with
>
> GNU LilyPond 2.9.28
> Processing `/tmp/a.ly'
> Parsing...
>
> and the exit code is zero. In contrast, if I add a stray ASCII character 
> at the top level
> of a file, I get a syntax error. The same problem happens both in the 
> latest 2.9.x and
> in 2.8.
>
> Example:
>
> \version "2.9.28"
> é
> \relative c'{
> c d e f
> }
>
>   /Mats
>
>
>
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