Re: Scheme char issue

[David Kastrup]

Leo Correia de Verdier <address@hidden> writes:

> Dear list!
>
> The following code is not compiling as I think it should. (I think it
> should output a square root sign, it should be valid scheme code for
> that)
>
> \version "2.19.82"
> \void #(display #\x221A)
>
> Is it because I’m stupid, some known issue or something else? Do you
> know about some workaround?

Guile 1.8 (the main version of Guile working with LilyPond) has 8-bit
characters and strings.  There is ly:wide-char->utf-8 which might work
for your purposes.

-- 
David Kastrup