Thanks Frédéric, I solved the problem by using Notepad and saving the file in utf-8. dubcek
Frédéric Bron wrote: > > I use with success the windows version of lily combined with vim (:set > encoding=utf-8). No issue with French text. > Can you send your extract and I will make it work. Then I am sure you > will be able to find a proper editor. > > Fred > > dubcek a écrit : >> For about a year now. I have been using Lilypond. I was very happy with >> it, >> very very happy. Until the day that I tried to write a French title in >> which >> there was a letter with an accent. >> Ever since, no matter what I have done, I have failed to produce a pdf >> file >> that displayed the character properly. >> I am using a Windows XP machine. >> First I used the lilypond offered through cygwin. That worked until I >> tried >> the letter with the accent. >> I have used emacs through cygwin, then the latest version of Xemacs >> without >> Cygwin. Nothing worked. >> I updated lilypond through cygwin only to get no characters at all any >> more. >> When I read that it was better to use lilypond for Windows, I switched >> (the >> characters now were better than ever before, but still no character with >> an >> accent. >> Finally, I switched editors, tried Editpad. To no avail. >> I have spent innumerable hours trying to solve the problem. There must be >> a >> simple solution, for I have seen a source file with the line in the >> header >> saying inputencoding="utf-8". I copied that trick. Lilypond handled it >> without protesting. But no accented character. >> Who can tell me in clear language how to lick the problem? >> >> Thanks. >> dubcek. > > -- > F. Bron > > ----------------------------------------------------------- > Frédéric Bron ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > Villa des Quatre Chemins, Centre Hospitalier, BP 208 > 38506 VOIRON CEDEX > tél. : (33) 4 76 67 17 27 > > > > _______________________________________________ > lilypond-user mailing list > lilypond-user@gnu.org > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user > > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/utf-8-tf2487497.html#a6999241 Sent from the Gnu - Lilypond - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
