Re: German text characters

[Graham Percival]

On 23-May-06, at 3:39 AM, bears388 wrote:

> Downloaded the 2.8.2 Manual, and found the entries the same. I also 
> got a unicode character set, but no matter what I try, writing the 
> characters in unicode and saving them as utf-8 and then cutting and 
> pasting,I cannot get the umlauts on any letters that need them. Other 
> people manage this, why can't I?
>
> I'm using Version 2.6.5 and MS Notepad to enter code. Do I need a 
> higher version of Lilypond, or another editor? If so, which? No one 
> else has answered my request except you!

I don't use windows, so I can't help with windows software.  Please 
search the mailist archives for "notepad" or "utf-8 text editor" or 
something like that.  This question has been discussed a few times, but 
I never really paid attention.  Depending on your version of windows, I 
think that there's an option in the notepad preferences that let you 
select "save as utf-8".

Cheers,
- Graham