2005-02-06 Jan Nieuwenhuizen <janneke@gnu.org>
+ * Documentation/user/changing-defaults.itely (Text encoding): Clarify.
+
* ly/titling-init.ly: Do not also print intstrument in header on
first page. Do not print page number on first and only page.
@node Text encoding
@subsection Text encoding
-LilyPond uses the Pango library to format multi-lingual texts. This
-means that any text, be it title, lyric text, or musical instruction
-contaning non-ASCII characters should be entered as Unicode. Such
-files should be edited using a Unicode aware editor, and saved as UTF8
-encoded. Most popular modern editors have UTF8 support, for example,
-vim, Emacs, jEdit, and GEdit do.
+LilyPond uses the Pango library to format multi-lingual texts, and
+does not perform any input-encoding conversions. This means that any
+text, be it title, lyric text, or musical instruction containing
+non-ASCII characters, must be utf-8. Easiest to enter such texts is
+by using a Unicode-aware editor, and save using utf-8 encoding. Most
+popular modern editors have utf-8 support, for example, vim, Emacs,
+jEdit, and GEdit do.
Depending on the fonts installed, the following fragment shows Hebrew
and Cyrillic lyrics,