The hunspell package uses the code below to replace curly quotes (aka fancyquotes) with a regular ascii quotes that are needed for check spelling:
chartr("\u2019", "'", input) As of last week this stopped working on CRAN in the Linux server that runs in ISO8859-15 locale. From the error message, it seems that R no longer parses the escaped unique string, which gets turned into "<U+2019>". Is this expected? ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel