Thanks to all for the advice. And, now with a little spare time, I checked the font list:
$ lilypond -dshow-available-fonts 2>&1 | grep 'CJK SC' family Noto Sans CJK SC Noto Sans CJK SC,Noto Sans CJK SC Bold:style=Bold,Regular ... and many other style variants Unfortunately, the crash persists. Minimal example: \version "2.18.2" \header { dedication = \markup { \override #'(font-name . "Noto Sans CJK SC") %% doesn't matter if I use Mono here or not "为" } } { c'1 } I also had the thought: "dedication" is in italics, so maybe it's looking for an oblique variant that doesn't exist. So I tried ```\normal-text "为"``` but I still get the same ghostscript crash. $ gs --version 9.18 Quite puzzled. My .ly document compiles perfectly, until I add a single Chinese character to a string. hjh _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user