Prof Brian Ripley wrote:
> On Wed, 28 Jun 2006, Peter Dalgaard wrote: > >> 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? >>> > > Unfortunately, they might get nothing visible at all, and they might > also get something completely wrong (happens on my Windows' X11 server > on my laptop). This is not an R problem but a question of the quality > of implementation of UTF-8. (Given the lack of UTF-8 fonts, I don't > see the latter changing any time soon.) > > My comments (at UseR and to Göran) are intended to make people aware > just how badly things can go wrong: it is up to the users to decide if > transliteration is worse than the chance of mangling. > >>> 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? > It has been several months since I did this, but I thought I had followed all the instructions. > > It is necessary to do so. I use a mixture of UTF-8 and latin1 locales > on systems sharing a file system, and it all works for me: iconv does > the charset translations transparently provided it knows what to do. Ok, I will try again sometime when I have a bit more time. Thanks, Paul ==================================================================================== La version française suit le texte anglais. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This email may contain privileged and/or confidential inform...{{dropped}} ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel