Re: which encoding for umlaute

[Stefan Thomas]

Dear James,
thanks for Your help. I finally succeded with:
\version "2.12.2"

\header {

      title = \markup {\concat {"B" \char ##x0f6 "u" \char ##x159 "r"
\char ##x0e9 "e"} }
}

{a b c d e}

2009/12/22 Stefan Thomas <address@hidden>

Dear James,
unfortunately, this didnt' work for me!
I tried it with:

\version "2.12.2"

\header {

     title = \markup {\concat {"Bourr" \char ##x009 "e"} }
}

\relative c' {
  c4 d e f g a b c
}

I've attached the resulting png-file

2009/12/19 James Lowe <address@hidden>

alternatively you can look up the table here:

http://www.utf8-chartable.de/

and then manually put in the value using the '\char ##' function.

For example

\header {

     title = \markup {\concat {"Bourr" \char ##x009 "e"} }
}

Which gives Bourrée with an e-acute (x009). The \concat switch means that 'Bourrée' doesn't end up as 'Bourr é e'.

I use this method because I don't have a lot of accented characters to deal with and also I can move my ly files into virtually any plaintext editor without worrying about any weird conversions that a different OS or editor will do.

James

-----Original Message-----
From: lilypond-user-bounces+james.lowe=datacore.com@gnu.org on behalf of Stefan Thomas
Sent: Sat 19/12/2009 19:39
To: lilypond-user
Subject: which encoding for umlaute

Dear community,
which encoding do I have to choose, to get the german "Umlaute" (like ä, ö,
etc.) properly shown on a windows-machine?