Re: Unicode PDF titles garbled

[Reinhold Kainhofer]

Am Sonntag, 6. Februar 2011, um 06:28:42 schrieb Jay Anderson:
> An example:
> 
> \version "2.13.48"
> \header
> {
>   title = "Non Lo Farò Più"
>   composer = "Johann Baptist Strauß"
> }
> 
> When viewing the pdf the title shows as "Non Lo Farò Più". I've only
> tested this with Evince and Okular. In searching about the problem
> people suggest that the text encoding should be utf-16be and include
> the BOM

Thanks for spotting that bug (Bug squad, can you please open a bug report for 
this!). 

It's actually simpler than using utf-16be. All that is needed is to use escape 
sequences instead of the accented characters. E.g. I would need to use "\362" 
instead of "ò". 

Unfortunately, I haven't found a scheme/guile method to create those escape 
sequences from a utf8 string (I don't even know exactly which escape sequences 
these are! At least they are none of the usual utf8 representations).

Cheers,
Reinhold

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