Re: German text characters

[Stephen]

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From: "Graham Percival" <address@hidden>
To: "bears388" <address@hidden>
Cc: <address@hidden>
Sent: Tuesday, May 23, 2006 4:50 PM
Subject: Re: German text characters


> On 23-May-06, at 3:39 AM, bears388 wrote:
>
> > Downloaded the 2.8.2 Manual, and found the entries the same. I also got a 
> > unicode character set, but no matter what I try, writing the characters 
> > in unicode and saving them as utf-8 and then cutting and pasting,I cannot 
> > get the umlauts on any letters that need them. Other people manage this, 
> > why can't I?
> >
> > I'm using Version 2.6.5 and MS Notepad to enter code. Do I need a higher 
> > version of Lilypond, or another editor? If so, which? No one else has 
> > answered my request except you!
>
> I don't use windows, so I can't help with windows software.  Please search 
> the mailist archives for "notepad" or "utf-8 text editor" or something 
> like that.  This question has been discussed a few times, but I never 
> really paid attention.  Depending on your version of windows, I think that 
> there's an option in the notepad preferences that let you select "save as 
> utf-8".

That is correct, I use XP. Since Lilypond 2.6 you can use special characters 
simply by saving the lilypond files in UTF-8 encoding. In NotePad choose 
Save AS... and click on the dropdown menu for Encoding. Choose UTF-8 instead 
of ANSI.

I also like to use jEdit for this, however. The difference is that you can 
make UTF-8 encoding the default if you use jEdit. I don't think you can 
change NotePad's default behavior of saving everything as ANSI initially, 
although it respects and preserves whatever text format it is in after you 
change it.

Stephen

> Cheers,
> - Graham
>
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