Resending this as the original message went out as html and the special characters got garbled.
tools:::latexToUtf8() doesn't convert the LaTeX accented character "\\'i" to í (see Bug #18208 https://bugs.r-project.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18208, reported by Manuel López-Ibáñez for details and justification). For example: > tools:::latexToUtf8(tools::parseLatex("\\'i")) \'i It does the conversion if i is replaced by '\i': > tools:::latexToUtf8(tools::parseLatex("file:\\'\\i")) í I think that this can be fixed by adding a line to the definition of makeLatexTable() in R/src/library/tools/R/parseLatex.R, just before it returns: makeLatexTable <- function(utf8table) { ... table[["file://textemdash"]] <- "\u2014" latexArgCount[["file://textemdash"]] <<- 0 table$"\\'"$"i" <- table$"\\'"$"\\i" # Georgi table } I can submit a patch if I get access to bugzilla. After building R-devel svn 81022 from 2021-10-08 with the above change, we get what we want: > tools:::latexToUtf8(tools::parseLatex("\\'i")) í > tools:::latexToUtf8(tools::parseLatex("\\'\\i")) í Georgi Boshnakov ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
