I can probably get answers to some of this if I read some of the stuff the people doing Hebrew, Russian, or Chinese have been struggling with, but it seems like Polish should be easier. Also, I have the abc2ly problem, which I don't think any of them have mentioned.
My first attempt was a little abc file:
test.abc
Description: Binary data
This has a line of Polish "lyrics" which looks correct in xemacs:
w:Ą eł żą Ź
But when abc2ly turns it into lilypond, it no longer looks anything
like Polish:
wordsdefaultVA = \lyrics {
- B¡ e³ ¿± ¬- A
}
So when I run lilypond on test.ly, I get:
/home/lconrad/music/psaumes/babylon-polish/test.ly:8:0: error: syntax error,
unexpected $undefined:
¡ e³ ¿± ¬
If I hand-substitute the real Polish characters for the ones that
abc2ly mangled, I still get the error, and only the ascii "e" comes
out in the lyrics.
Putting quotes around each "word" removes the error, but I still don't
get any Polish characters in the output.
So what am I going to have to do:
in Lilypond, to make it recognize that it should be printing
Polish (latin-2 or latin-3 encoding instead of latin-1)?
in abc2ly, to make it transfer the characters I type instead
of garbling them?
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