insertion of UTF-8 characters

[Tom Cloyd]

The documentation [/Lilypond notation reference.pdf/, “3.3.3 Text 
encoding”, pdf p. 318.] states that UTF-8 coding is used in Ly and that 
UTF-8 hex codes can be inserted into text. An example is given, and I 
show it here using the code of interest to me - that for the Copyright sign:

#(ly:export (ly:wide-char->utf-8 #xc2a9))|

|This example has no context, and when I put it in one I cannot get it 
to work. I suggest that the documentation be modified to give one. 
Meanwhile, I need a solution to the problem of how to insert a Copyright 
sign into the copyright line. Here's what I tried:

\header {...
copyright = "#(ly:export (ly:wide-char->utf-8 #xc2a9)) 2008"
...

It produced this in the PDF output:

#(ly:export (ly:wide-char->utf-8 #xc2a9)) 2008

Placing the UTF code export line outside of the quotes wouldn't even 
compile.

Can anyone suggest how to do this?

Thanks!

Tom


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