2008/3/30, Dirk Eddelbuettel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > May well be but before you go overboard and file a dozen more bug reports > with Debian --- would you consider discussing this first on the r-devel list? >
Sorry if it looked unpolite, I'm not going to report any more bugs today ;-) > None of this is germane to Debian so we may as well get R folks involved. As > for the issue in this bug report, I simply do not know where utf-8 is or is > not supported. I tend to just use English, so sorry. Will have to pass this > on. An excerpt from "Writing R Extensions", section 2.10 "Encoding": > Wherever possible, avoid non-ASCII chars in Rd files, and even symbols such > as > '<', '>', '$', '^', '&', '|', '@', '~', and '*' outside verbatim > environments (since > they may disappear in fonts designed to render text). With that I fully agree, but in my case I *want* to use cyrillics. My package is created to overcome some problems with cyrillics in R graphics, so I want to insert an actual example of how to workaround a problem. Another except made me optimistic: > For convenience, encoding names 'latin1' and 'latin2' are always recognized: > these and 'UTF-8' are likely to work fairly widely. Looks like utf8 is generally supported. Andrey -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
