On 30 March 2008 at 23:31, ?????? ????????? wrote: | 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 ;-)
Well the only one who was impolite was me for barking ... but I am more or less helpless and just in the way for upstream bugs so... | | > 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 Well but as I try to tell my small-ish children: 'want' alone doesn't make it so! If the manual says 'ascii only' you may be out of luck, no? | 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. I read 'likely to work fairly widely' as 'having non-zero chance of failing with some other locales'. Maybe you hit one of the others? That said, it should still be fixable with some effort. Maybe you help it along. For example, can you follow up on Doug's earlier suggestion? Dirk -- I was off email for a few days until March 29th, and am now catching up. My apologies for delayed responses and/or brevity. -- Three out of two people have difficulties with fractions. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
