Re: "à" in title makes damaged pdf

[YD]

Le 27/02/2013 12:44, Colin Hall a écrit :
> yvand writes:
>
> > Hi lilypond developpers,
> >
> > I wanted to type the well-known composition "Für Elise" in lilypond for a 
> > friend.
> > Unfortunately, the PDF generated by lilypond was damaged (according to evince,
> > gimp, inkscape)! After some tests, I found what was the problem.
> > The title was "Lettre à Élise" (translation in French of "Letter for Elise"),
> > and the character "à" in the title was the origin of the problem! (same problem
> > in other header fields)
> > It seems so odd, amazing for me that only this "special" character was the
> > problem. Indeed, other "special" characters (such as é, É, è, È, ç, Ç, ù, Ù, À
> > (à uppercase!) etc) works fine!
> >
> > PS : Sorry for my bad English.
> Here is an update on your bug report, Yvand.
>
> The bug you reported is due to a known problem in Ghostscript. The
> Ghostscript team have fixed their software but we had not yet adopted
> the fix in Lilypond. For more information, see:
>
> http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=2985
>
> David Kastrup has fixed Lilypond.
>
> We expect your problem to be fixed in the next unstable release of
> Lilypond.
>
> Cheers,
> Colin.
> Bug squad.
Thank you very much for the details and the fix.
It reassures me, I was not dreaming in spite of the doubts of some... ;-)
But I don't understand why some people did not manage to reproduce my 
issue (using the same code and the same lilypond version) (maybe we used 
a different version Ghostscript).

Cheers too,
yvand