David,Thank you for showing that LSR-197 compiles fine with utf-8 characters on Debian. I think under window 10, this should be the same.Lilypond has no problem reading and display (output) utf-8 characters. On window 10 llilypond produces utf-8.pdf utf-8.mid; utf-8 _header (title, subtitle, poet, composer, arranger etc) and utf-8 lyrics. It is only LSR-197 not accepting utf-8 characters on file-utf-8.ly file name.As mention in this subject LSR-197 on the list that guile-v2 transition is involved. I can wait till then.In the meantime, I will keep using UTS-8-filename just refrain using LSR-197 to generate filename. I am working away using hard-code variables for display as drive#/utf-8_folder/utf-8_sub-folder/utf-8_filename.ly on pdf file footer.Thank you all for helping.Immanuel,Ming
From: David Wright <lily...@lionunicorn.co.uk> To: Simon Albrecht <simon.albre...@mail.de> Cc: MING TSANG <tsan...@rogers.com>; Lilypond-usermailinglist <lilypond-user@gnu.org> Sent: Saturday, December 17, 2016 5:10 PM Subject: Re: lSR=197 On Sat 17 Dec 2016 at 18:38:59 (+0100), Simon Albrecht wrote: > On 17.12.2016 17:41, MING TSANG wrote: > >Window 10 has no problem use UTF-8 .ly file. after compile > >through Frecobaldi .pdf and .mid files are created. > >It seems that internal working of lilypond and its associated > >programs not handling it. I was wondering there is a work-around? > > Well, you were the one reporting that there _is_ a problem with > UTF-8 file names on Windows. See > <https://sourceforge.net/p/testlilyissues/issues/2173/>. > The deal is very simple: If somebody comes along who needs UTF-8 > file names on Windows, and has the time and skills to look for the > problem and craft a fix for LilyPond so it can handle them, then the > problem will be fixed. > However, the majority of LilyPond users and a greater majority of > LilyPond developers do not use Windows, and while it would be nice > to be able to use UTF-8 file names, it’s no dealbreaker if you > can’t. Additionally, the guile-v2 transition is involved, so it’s > certainly wise to not wait for a fix and instead adopt using > ASCII-only file names for LilyPond work. I have no problem with UTF-8 per se, but only with the more exotic characters, outline arrows, scissors, five-pointed star and suchlike (on Debian). I would imagine Chinese characters would fall in that category. Cheers, David.
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