>>>>> Trevor Davis >>>>> on Thu, 31 Aug 2023 13:49:03 -0700 writes:
> Hi, > It would be nice if `grDevices::dev.capabilities()` could also be used to > query whether the current graphics device supports Unicode. In such a case > I'd expect it to return `FALSE` if `pdf()` is the current graphics device > and something else for the Cairo or Quartz devices. > Thanks, > Trevor I agree in principle that this would be useful new feature for dev.capabilities() However, pdf() *does* support Unicode. The problem is that some pdf *viewers*, notably `evince` on Fedora Linux, for several years now, do *not* show *some* of the UTF-8 glyphs because they do not use the correct fonts {which *are* on the machine; good old `xpdf` does in that case show the glyphs}. Martin ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel