I found a few occurrences of "\uxxx" which should probably have one more "x". A patch follows:
Index: doc/manual/R-ints.texi =================================================================== --- doc/manual/R-ints.texi (revision 74580) +++ doc/manual/R-ints.texi (working copy) @@ -1277,11 +1277,11 @@ we have to a universal format. For those that do not (for example those lacking a powerful enough @code{iconv}), it is likely that they work in Latin-1, the old @R{} assumption. Then the parser can return a -UTF-8-encoded string if it encounters a @samp{\uxxx} escape for a +UTF-8-encoded string if it encounters a @samp{\uxxxx} escape for a Unicode point that cannot be represented in the current charset. (This needs MBCS support, and was only enabled@footnote{See define @code{USE_UTF8_IF_POSSIBLE} in file @file{src/main/gram.c}.} on -Windows.) This is enabled for all platforms, and a @samp{\uxxx} or +Windows.) This is enabled for all platforms, and a @samp{\uxxxx} or @samp{\Uxxxxxxxx} escape ensures that the parsed string will be marked as UTF-8. Index: src/library/base/man/iconv.Rd =================================================================== --- src/library/base/man/iconv.Rd (revision 74580) +++ src/library/base/man/iconv.Rd (working copy) @@ -95,7 +95,7 @@ Some of the implementations have interesting extra encodings: for example GNU \samp{libiconv} allows \code{to = "C99"} to use - \code{\\uxxx} escapes for non-ASCII characters. + \code{\\uxxxx} escapes for non-ASCII characters. } \section{Byte Order Marks}{ ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel