Can Unicode texts be written to a .mid file? #184
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I found a TextEncoding option in the WritingSettings class. It's no surprise that the default is ASCII because the MIDI standard only supports ASCII texts. |
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No, that is not guaranteed. You can specify Also some DAWs can write MIDI with text events where text is stored in Unicode to save, for example, lyrics in your local language. And DryWetMIDI allows you correctly read such texts via specifying |
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No, that is not guaranteed. You can specify
TextEncoding
property onWritingSettings
/ReadingSettings
to write/read MIDI data by DryWetMIDI.Also some DAWs can write MIDI with text events where text is stored in Unicode to save, for example, lyrics in your local language. And DryWetMIDI allows you correctly read such texts via specifying
TextEncoding
property. But again, there is no guarantee that such text will be correctly read by other software.