Re: Inputting special symbols

[Kurt Starsinic]

On 1/2/06, fiëé visuëlle <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> Am 2006-01-02 um 12:43 schrieb liang seng:
>
> > Hi, I'm using Lilypond 2.7.x series for Windows 98 and I would like
> > to know how can we input special characters into Lilypond using
> > standard word editors like Notepad? I would like to put the word
> > "piu forte" in a text markup, but with a backslash on top of the u
> > in "piu". I tried using Alt+151 (the symbol ù) to enter that
> > character but it was not shown in the pdf output. Is there a way to
> > do this?
>
> This is a FAQ.
> You need to use an editor that is able to handle UTF-8 encoding
> (preferably without Byte Order Mark).

    Could you please clarify this point?  Byte Order Mark is only
applicable to UTF-16.  There's no such thing as an editor that puts a
Byte Order Mark in UTF-8.

    - Kurt