Re: [Rd] UTF-8 characters in Rd files

2020-12-17 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On 15/12/2020 23:57, Gábor Csárdi wrote: Dear list, I am trying to see if there is a way to expand the set of UTF-8 characters that we can use in Rd files. The main blocker is LaTeX when building the PDF manual. You need to explain why this is desirable. The other limiting factor is availabil

[Rd] Unicode characters in ISO8859-15 locale

2020-12-17 Thread Jeroen Ooms
The hunspell package uses the code below to replace curly quotes (aka fancyquotes) with a regular ascii quotes that are needed for check spelling: chartr("\u2019", "'", input) As of last week this stopped working on CRAN in the Linux server that runs in ISO8859-15 locale. From the error messa