\version "2.13.60" \header { texidoc = "PDF metadata need either Latin1 encoding (not UTF8) or full UTF-16BE with BOM. The title field uses full UTF-16 (russian characters, euro, etc), while the composer uses normal european diacrits (which need to be encoded as Latin1, not as UTF8). Closing parenthesis need to be escaped by a backslash AFTER encoding!" % Non-latin1 text, requiring UTF-16BE (with BOM) encoding in PDF metatdata: % closing parentheses and backslashed need to be escaped AFTER encoding! title = "UTF-16BE title:² € ĂĄœŖŮůſЖюљ)\\\n ¡" % Latin1 text, requiring at least PDFDocEncoding in PDF metadata, all Latin1 % characters coincide, so no special encoding is required, just print out % the Latin1 characters (NOT the utf8 bytes!) composer = "Latin1 composer (with special chars): Jöhånñ Strauß" poet = "UTF-16BE with parentheses: ) € ĂĄœŖŮůſЖюљ" } \score { \new Staff c'1 }