Re: UTF-8 unicode use in \markup

2021-11-29 Thread ming tsang
Thank you very much. Helpful information. Sent from my iPhone > On Nov 28, 2021, at 7:39 PM, Valentin Petzel wrote: > > Just for clarification: > > 00a7 is not a special code, but a hexadecimal number. Basically any unicode > char is linked with a number, and the „code” is just this number

Re: UTF-8 unicode use in \markup

2021-11-28 Thread Valentin Petzel
Just for clarification: 00a7 is not a special code, but a hexadecimal number. Basically any unicode char is linked with a number, and the „code” is just this number in hexadecimal digits. U+ is just a way to specify that a hexadecimal number stands for a unicode char. In our case that

Re: UTF-8 unicode use in \markup

2021-11-28 Thread ming tsang
Hi Valentin Petzel, Thank you for your reply. I found a UTF-8 encoding table and Unicode characters https://www.utf8-chartable.de/unicode-utf8-table.pl?utf8=0x Now I can look up the U+00a7 and then use \markup { \char ##x00a7 ) to display it. for \char I cannot use unicode U+00a7. I was hoping

Re: UTF-8 unicode use in \markup

2021-11-28 Thread Valentin Petzel
Hello Ming, I do not understand your exact problem. If you want to have € in markup you can either directly put € in the markup, or use \char ##20ac. Valentin Am Sonntag, 28. November 2021, 22:42:47 CET schrieb ming tsang: > Hi lilyponder, > > I would like to use \markup to display € using

UTF-8 unicode use in \markup

2021-11-28 Thread ming tsang
Hi lilyponder, I would like to use \markup to display € using U+20AC. I can use \markup { \char ##x2197 } to display / print / output to pdf. ##x2197 is [image: image.png] Your help is appreciated. Shalom, yMing -- ming (lyndon) tsang