>> In my experiment, Cairo without LilyPond does not generate garbled >> characters. It seems to be a LilyPond issue instead of a Cairo >> issue. Here's a python-cairo sample that works fine. [...] > > I can conform that this small script generates a PDF where > copy-and-paste works as expected (I have cairo version 1.16.0 > installed on my GNU/Linux system). Looking into the uncompressed > version of PDF (created with `pdftk`) I see that it contains proper > ToUnicode cmaps for the two fonts. > > Does `-dbackend=cairo` pass markup strings directly to Cairo?
If I understand correctly, the cairo backend in LilyPond is passing already garbled characters to the cairo library. I created https://gitlab.com/lilypond/lilypond/-/issues/6173 _______________________________________________ bug-lilypond mailing list bug-lilypond@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-lilypond
