Paul Gilbert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I've been following this thread hoping for the definitive answer... > > Peter Dalgaard wrote: > .... > > Well, I do tend to think that we should just use utf, assuming that > > people have the relevant glyphs. If they don't, then they might get > > little hollow rectangles but so what? > > My problem is that I put an ö in a reference in an Rd file, and now my > builds fail on some of my systems. I can switch which systems work and > which are broken, but I can not get it to work on all systems. I have > spent way too much time trying to figure out what is wrong. So, wrt "so > what", I need to choose between checking my packages on all the > different systems I use, or having an ö in the Rd file. I think my > problem is more complicated than having the relevant glyphs. I suspect > it has to do with having the same locale on all systems doing NFS > mounts, or on my cvs server, or something strange like that.
Just to clarify, one thing is what I feel should be the longer term strategy, another is what the R build tools can currently do... Did you follow the advice to declare your input encoding with \encoding and use \enc to provide a transliteration? -- O__ ---- Peter Dalgaard Øster Farimagsgade 5, Entr.B c/ /'_ --- Dept. of Biostatistics PO Box 2099, 1014 Cph. K (*) \(*) -- University of Copenhagen Denmark Ph: (+45) 35327918 ~~~~~~~~~~ - ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) FAX: (+45) 35327907 ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
