Issue 1502 in lilypond: DOcument information in PDF headers requires escapes for accented characters

[lilypond]

Status: Accepted
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Labels: Type-Defect Priority-High

New issue 1502 by address@hidden: DOcument information in PDF  
headers requires escapes for accented characters
http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=1502

 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).