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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