Re: [Rd] Non-ASCII chars in R code

2006-05-19 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
A little more digging revealed a Unix/Windows discrepancy here. On Unix, saving images and preparing for lazyloading/lazydata is done with LC_ALL=C: on Windows with LC_COLLATE=C. I will change Windows to match. Unfortunately how the C locale is implemented is OS-dependent. Strictly it should

[Rd] Non-ASCII chars in R code

2006-05-17 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
The report on R_help about problems loading package irr (in a UTF-8 locale, it seemed) prompted me to look a little deeper. There are quite a few packages with Latin-1 chars in their .R files, and a couple in UTF-8. Apart from non-ASCII chars in comments, this is a problem as the code concern