Re: "à" in title makes damaged pdf

[Thomas Morley]

2013/2/24 yvand <address@hidden>:
> Hi lilypond developpers,
>
> I wanted to type the well-known composition "Für Elise" in lilypond for a 
> friend.
> Unfortunately, the PDF generated by lilypond was damaged (according to evince,
> gimp, inkscape)! After some tests, I found what was the problem.
> The title was "Lettre à Élise" (translation in French of "Letter for Elise"),
> and the character "à" in the title was the origin of the problem! (same 
> problem
> in other header fields)
> It seems so odd, amazing for me that only this "special" character was the
> problem. Indeed, other "special" characters (such as é, É, è, È, ç, Ç, ù, Ù, À
> (à uppercase!) etc) works fine!
>
> PS : Sorry for my bad English.
>
> -- yvand
>
>
> Below is an example of code that generates a damaged pdf :
>
> \version "2.16.2"
>
> \header{
>   title = "Lettre à Élise"
> }
>
> melody = \relative c' {
>   \clef treble \key c \major \time 3/4 \partial 4
>   e'8 dis | e dis e b d c | a4. c,8 e a \bar "||"
> }
>
> \score {
>   \new Staff \melody
> }

Hi,

I tested your code with 2.16.1 and 2.17.12 on Ubuntu 10.04

Both versions return a correct pdf.

Could someone test it with 2.16.2 (I don't have this version)?

-Harm