We describe how to use \enc for possible transliterations for exactly this
purpose in the `Writing R Extensions' manual.
In answer to Göran's question, yes latin1 is safer than UTF-8 for HTML
browsers but neither are guaranteed to contain a glyph for ö in a font
used e.g. in a Russian locale.
On Tue, 27 Jun 2006, Spencer Graves wrote:
Hello, Göran:
Have you considered the German solution: "Goeran"? (e.g., Wuertz
for Würtz)?
Be thankful that you aren't Russian or Greek or Arabic or Chinese,
etc., for which there may be no standard transliteration into the Latin
alphabet.
Sorry I can't be more helpful.
Spencer Graves
p.s. When I'm with native Spanish speakers who don't know English, I
pronounce my name very differently, like "Espencer Gra-ve", to match how they
would pronounce my name when they see it written. Similarly, I once heard a
French Canadian take about his young son, Guillaume. If you ask him in
English, "What's your name?" he replies, "Bill". If you ask the same
question in French, he replies, "Guillaume".
Hin-Tak Leung wrote:
Göran Broström wrote:
On 6/27/06, Prof Brian Ripley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Tue, 27 Jun 2006, Göran Broström wrote:
I have been converting to utf8 from latin1, and this gives me
problems, some solved, but here is one unsolved: In my .Rd files, I
have included '\encoding{UTF-8}' at the top. Despite this, the HTML
help pages contains 'content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"', and my
name is mangled. What can I do about this?
Reproducible example, please! (I've just tried this and it works for
me.)
As described in my talk at UseR 2006, you may well not want to do this if
you intend to distribute the package. Your name contains characters that
are not in the fonts used in UTF-8 in non-European locales, and Windows
users do no have ready access to UTF-8 viewers (even if they know the
files are UTF-8).
Thanks for your answer! So this means that 'latin1' does not cause
problems for non-European locales and Windows users, I take it.
I really only need non-ascii to write the name ot the author (me)
correctly. I tried LaTeX code ({\"o}), but that didn't work. Is there
a way around this?
Göran
The \"o character in my latin1 (iso 8859-1) man page says it is 0xF6
F6 - LATIN SMALL LETTER O WITH DIAERESIS
The capital version is
D6 - LATIN CAPITAL LETTER O WITH DIAERESIS
in html I think you need to do &#F6; or something for that character to
appear?
HTH
HTL
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