[ESS-bugs] ess-mode 5.2.3; Signif. code output includes garbage characters

[Martin Maechler]

>>>>> "Dominick" == Dominick Samperi <dsamperi at DecisionSynergy.com>
>>>>>     on 12 Jun 2005 21:53:09 -0400 writes:

    Dominick> --text follows this line-- I'm running V2.1.0 of R
    Dominick> with ESS and whenever I generate statistical
    Dominick> output that includes a display of the
    Dominick> Signif. codes the output includes garbage
    Dominick> characters. Problem only occurs when run inside
    Dominick> xemacs under Linux. Things work fine with the
    Dominick> windows version of xemacs and V2.1.0 of R.

    Dominick> Any ideas? Thanks, Dominick

Yes, this topic just came up last week on the R mailing list.


    Dominick> Emacs : XEmacs 21.4 (patch 16) "Corporate Culture"
    Dominick> [Lucid] (i686-pc-linux) of Mon Jan 24 2005 on
    Dominick> newton Package: ess-mode 5.2.3

you definitely need to upgrade ESS.
We (ESS-core) particularly worked to make ESS cooperate
correctly with UTF-8 encoded (Unicode) input / output and this
resulted in ESS versions 5.2.6 and higher.  5.2.8 has been
current for a while now.

Alternatively, you choose a non UTF-8 locale,
in your OS-Initialization or User-Login Initialization scripts.

If you want help for that, we need to know your current settings
(what kind of shell, what locale), e.g.,
by showing us what you get in the shell -- after  M-x shell in Emacs
from
	echo $SHELL
	locale

Hoping that helps,
Martin


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