On Wed, 27 Jun 2007, Peter Dalgaard wrote: > Prof Brian Ripley wrote: >> But R 2.5.0 does the same, and as far as I know R has done so for many >> past versions. >> >> You are asking the impossible: outputting Latin-1 in a Latin-2 >> environment. Remember that postscript() does not handle UTF-8, and so >> uses whatever it thinks the local 8-bit encoding is, in your case >> either Latin-2 or ASCII. We can probably work around this, but >> definitely not at this late stage for 2.5.1.
> Yes. Longer term we probably should. I don't think we want "make check" > to be locale-dependent, and we do enforce C locale elsewhere. But you can't really avoid it if you want to test non-ASCII features: for example, you cannot test Latin-1 graphics in a C locale. It was intended that the postscript device opened for testing graphics was opened with encoding="ISOLatin1". That should certainly have helped, at least in a UTF-8 locale, but unfortunately there were a couple of typos in tests/Examples/Makefile. Fixing that file makes 'make check' work in cs_CZ.utf8 at least on my machine. It still remains that (for examples) you cannot successfully run make check in a MBCS locale without iconv, nor will zh_CN.gbk nor zh_TW.big5 work. I've added a note to R-admin to say that you may need to try a suitable locale. -- Brian D. Ripley, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
