Re: Heureka! (Was: Some chord symbols still broken in 2.5.19)

[Han-Wen Nienhuys]

Matthias Neeracher wrote:
> > in ly/chord-modifiers-init.ly, the appropriate UTF-8 chars are  defined.
> > These are passed through lily. At some point, they end up at
> > Stencil Pango_font::text_stencil (), which calls
> > Stencil Pango_font::pango_item_string_stencil().
>
> I finally found what was going on: Pango and freetype were actually  
> working just fine, as far as I can tell. The problem was that wcrtomb  
> on MacOS X does not necessarily perform Unicode->UTF8 conversion  
> because it's locale sensitive, and it seems that the default locale  
> setting is not UTF8 friendly for this call.
>
> Simply hand coding the conversion seemed to work fine, but I'm not  sure 
> what other places in the code rely on wide character functionality.

thanks for the patch, I applied it. For the future, could you provide 
ChangeLogs? That makes it easier to track the copyright status of LilyPond.

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