Xavier,
short answer is no, because there is no guarantee that user's system supports
any encoding other than ASCII, so that code wouldn't run. Hence you can't use
non-ASCII characters in symbols.
That said, you can use Unicode _strings_, so metadata[["\u00e1cc\u00e9nts"]]
will work in ASCII-l
Dear all,
Somewhat related to a question that I posted a while ago (see
https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-package-devel/2021q4/007540.html), once
I've got a dataframe in my cache, some of the functions need to use some of
the variables. It turns out that some of the columns contain UTF-8
characters
