To change it globally: Utilities>Global Options>General, Default character encoding
To change for the current file: method 1: write a line in the file: % :encoding=UTF-8% method 2: double click on the right side of the status bar (where you can read the current encoding), and set character encoding. Method 1 will work even if automatic encoding recognition fails. Bert > > I too am having the same problem. I am using jedit, which is > wonderful, but completely new to me. How do I force it to the UTF-8 > encoding. I have done several things that I think should have done it, > but some definate direction would be nice. _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user