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Subject:    Re: =?UTF-8?B?IsOgIiBpbiB0aXRsZSBtYWtlcyBkYW1hZ2VkIHBkZg==?=
From:       YD <yvand.sword () gmail ! com>
Date:       2013-02-27 22:34:09
Message-ID: 512E89E1.7010007 () gmail ! com
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Le 27/02/2013 12:44, Colin Hall a écrit :
> yvand writes:
>
>> Hi lilypond developpers,
>>
>> I wanted to type the well-known composition "Für Elise" in lilypond for a friend.
>> Unfortunately, the PDF generated by lilypond was damaged (according to evince,
>> gimp, inkscape)! After some tests, I found what was the problem.
>> The title was "Lettre à Élise" (translation in French of "Letter for Elise"),
>> and the character "Ã " in the title was the origin of the problem! (same problem
>> in other header fields)
>> It seems so odd, amazing for me that only this "special" character was the
>> problem. Indeed, other "special" characters (such as é, É, è, È, ç, Ç, ù, Ù, À
>> (Ã  uppercase!) etc) works fine!
>>
>> PS : Sorry for my bad English.
>>
> Here is an update on your bug report, Yvand.
>
> The bug you reported is due to a known problem in Ghostscript. The
> Ghostscript team have fixed their software but we had not yet adopted
> the fix in Lilypond. For more information, see:
>
> http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=2985
>
> David Kastrup has fixed Lilypond.
>
> We expect your problem to be fixed in the next unstable release of
> Lilypond.
>
> Cheers,
> Colin.
> Bug squad.
>
Thank you very much for the details and the fix.
It reassures me, I was not dreaming in spite of the doubts of some... ;-)
But I don't understand why some people did not manage to reproduce my 
issue (using the same code and the same lilypond version) (maybe we used 
a different version Ghostscript).

Cheers too,
yvand


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