From: Otto Stolz (Otto.Stolz@uni-konstanz.de)
Date: Wed Feb 01 2006 - 03:41:43 CST
Hello,
Rick McGowan schrieb:
> I use Finale a
> lot myself (Maestro font), and I could think of several instant benefits
> if Finale had a Unicode *text* model, even assuming they didn't have the
> guts of the *music* processing in Unicode. For starters, I'd be able to
> insert lyrics in other languages such as Japanese & Russian, rather than
> English and (with difficulty) a few western European languages, and I'd be
> able to more easily insert various music *symbols* into text blobs in
> scores. And I would be also able to import and export text and lyrics from
> other Unicode-capable applications.
Same with me. I use Capella for folk-songs in all European languages.
That program allows to choose among nine legacy 8-bit codes, for
every single line of lyrics or for every text blob. Now, when I
write a song in mixed language (e. g. “Povi mi, rožica, wer hot denn
dos gemocht”, in Kroatian and a German dialect), or when I set a
Cyrillic, or Greek, line with Latin transliteration, I first will
have to set an invisible musical part to be able attach a line in
an alternate legacy code to it: very, very clumsy, and error-prone!
Even worse is that in the input mask, the bytes are displayed
according to CP 1252 (Windows Latin-1), only in the mosic score,
they appear correctly according to the code chosen. (Still, I manage
to produce lovely, readable scores, with this program.)
Last summer, I have written to the Capella developer, and he has
answered thusly (excerpt):
> Wie Sie richtig feststellen, hängen praktisch alle von Ihnen
> geschilderten Probleme mit der Tatsache zusammen, dass capella
> derzeit noch nicht Unicode unterstützt. In einer zukünftigen
> Version von capella planen wir den Umstieg auf Unicode.
which translatetes to:
As you aptly have stated, virtually all of the problems you
have described stem from the fact that Capella currently does
not support Unicode. We are planning the change-over to Unicode
for a forthcoming version.
He gave, however, no time estimate.
Best wishes,
Otto Stolz
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