On 17/12/2020 12:28, Jeroen Ooms wrote:
The hunspell package uses the code below to replace curly quotes (aka
officially these are directional (or right/left) quotes.
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>".
You need to distinguish the string and what gets printed. I see (for
the CRAN log from a 2-day-old R)
Error in chartr("<U+2019>", "'", as.character(add_words)) :
which is what I would expect to be printed in that locale:
x <- "\u2019"
Encoding(x)
[1] "UTF-8"
x
[1] "<U+2019>"
Is this expected?
Changes are expected, as this is an area being worked on (to try to
remove some system-dependent behaviour). However, I cannot reproduce
this easily:
chartr("\u2019", "'", "abc\u2019")
[1] "abc'"
As I say, work in progress.
--
Brian D. Ripley, rip...@stats.ox.ac.uk
Emeritus Professor of Applied Statistics, University of Oxford
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