Re: Enconding problems with musicxml2ly

[Lukas-Fabian Moser]

Hi Urs,

> > In the ly file created by musicxml2ly, any quoted string contains 
> > strange characters which prevent Lilypond from compiling the file. On 
> > my system, they are displayed thus (I include Kate's warning):
> This was discussed recently. I don't recall exactly what it was about 
> but you might search the archives (both lilypond-user and 
> bug-lilypond). I would think it has to do with the pretty old Python 
> version shipped with LilyPond. As a workaround (you're right that's 
> definitely not the way it *should* be) you should be able to remove 
> these "characters" automatically.
Thanks for the pointer - I don't usually follow the goings on in 
bug-lilypond, which is where that recent discussion took place. I'm sorry!

For future reference: The problem is discussed in

https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-lilypond/2018-08/msg00038.html
and
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2017-05/msg00230.html

It's not so bad since it turns out that (as Urs suggested) killing the 
spurious "Delta" signs by search&replace (e.g. in Frescobaldi) solves 
the problem. So it's just a slight inconvenience.

Best
Lukas