Re: Bad character encoding in console output under WinXP

[Trevor Daniels]

Valentin Villenave Saturday, April 11, 2009 9:10 AM
>

> 2009/4/11 Trevor Daniels <address@hidden>:
> > The file which contains this translation string (po/it.po) is 
> > encoded
> > (correctly) in UTF-8, in which è is written (correctly) as è. Is 
> > it
> > possible your console output is not correctly rendering 
> > utf-8-encoded
> > characters?
>
> IIRC that's a known issue with Windows console codepages. Using
> LilyPond on a French Windows is a nightmare wrt accented chars :-)

Actually this may be a LilyPond issue.  I notice on my system 
(Vista) that
these po files are rendered correctly when viewed with gitk or a 
utf-8-aware
editor like NotePad, but not by, for example, the ConTEXT editor,
which is not utf-8 capable.  This suggests it is the responsibility 
of
the application to correctly render utf-8 characters.  If this is 
correct, it
is a LilyPond bug.

Regards,
Valentin