Unicode

[sciurius]

I seem to recall that MMA was constrained to Latin-1 due to python2 problems.
I tried UTF-8 input while using python3 and it does not blow up, although it does not understand multibyte characters in chord names.
Non-latin in groove names seems to work.

[bvdp]

Yes, it's documented that way to cover my ass If it works, great ... if not ... well.... Multi-byte characters, etc. will not work in chord names since a simple match is done: If "Cm" doesn't equal "Cm" it's not "Cm". I think you could use chord define to create names with multi-byte without problems. It's not that MMA really cares, it's just not designed to care.

[sciurius]

Well, this works:

Code:

DefChord ♩ (0, 4, 7, 11) (0, 2, 4, 5, 7, 9, 11)
Plectrum Shape C♩  0 2 2 0 1 0
 1   C♩

That's all I need (so far ).

[bvdp]

Right, that should work. Hope you're not expecting other people to read your code a hundred years from now

[sciurius]

I admit my example was a bit contrived. But I have no problems imagining that some Indian composer will write things like

Code:

Groove डरलाग्दो
...

[bvdp]