Re: Using Unicode symbols for accidentals

[Hans Aberg]

On 12 Nov 2011, at 17:44, Carl Sorensen wrote:

>>> It's not exactly a bug, more like a feature request :)
>>> 
>>> I have noticed that convert-ly removes the \encoding and converts
>>> everything to UTF-8.
>> 
>> I hacked together some code, scm/define-note-names.scm, with a language
>> "unicode" added.
> 
> Another concern about having unicode as the default language -- when I
> opened the file in my default editor (TextEdit), none of the unicode
> characters appeared.  Readability was definitely not higher in this case.

Yes, one must have a font installed that can display them. Euterpe or Musical 
Symbols can display the double flats and sharps.

Hans