[ESS] accent marks on windows

[Toby Hocking]

I figured it out yay!
it was the same issue as
https://emacs.stackexchange.com/questions/74982/emacs-encoding-issues-windows-11
and the fix was adding the following to .emacs:

(setq-default buffer-file-coding-system 'utf-8)
(setq-default coding-system-for-read 'utf-8)
(prefer-coding-system 'utf-8)

On Mon, Aug 5, 2024 at 2:23 PM Toby Hocking <tdhock5 using gmail.com> wrote:
>
> also "±" seems to be ok (unicode character in quotes), but ± (unicode
> character outside of quotes) causes a freeze
>
> On Mon, Aug 5, 2024 at 2:22 PM Toby Hocking <tdhock5 using gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > emacs also freezes when other unicode characters, such as ± (plus or
> > minus) are entered in the *R* buffer.
> > this is definitely an ess-specific issue, because there is no freeze
> > when a special character is entered in the *scratch* buffer.
> > it is also an inferior R issue, because entering special characters in
> > file.R buffers works fine, until an inferior R process is started, and
> > then emacs will freeze.
> > any ideas?
> >
> > On Tue, Jul 16, 2024 at 1:19 PM Toby Hocking <tdhock5 using gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > A partial work-around is to change windows language to English, after
> > > which R does not try to display accent marks (but still hangs if you
> > > type é in the *R* buffer).
> > > This seems to be an issue only on windows, as I can not reproduce them
> > > on linux/ubuntu.
> > >
> > > On Tue, Jul 16, 2024 at 11:54 AM Toby Hocking <tdhock5 using gmail.com> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > hi, I am installing ESS on a new work computer, which is in Quebec
> > > > (French speaking province of Canada).
> > > > I am having issues with display and entry of accent marks, for example
> > > > e with accent aigu é
> > > > For example when R starts up I see é instead of é
> > > >
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> > > >
> > > > Do I need to tell emacs to use a particular character encoding for the
> > > > ESS buffer? How?
> > > > I expected this should "just work" (display the right character é)
> > > >
> > > > More problematic, when I try to enter é in the *R* buffer, it
> > > > freezes/hangs the whole emacs window. C-g does not help/cancel, only
> > > > way to get out is to tell windows to kill emacs.
> > > >
> > > > Any ideas?
> > > >
> > > > Below is the environment from my eshell, if that helps.
> > > > Thanks in advance!
> > > > Toby
> > > >
> > > > c:/Program Files/Emacs/emacs-29.4/bin $ env
> > > > ALLUSERSPROFILE=C:\ProgramData
> > > > APPDATA=C:\Users\hoct2726\AppData\Roaming
> > > > COLUMNS=80
> > > > COMPUTERNAME=DINF-THOCK-01A
> > > > COMSPEC=C:\windows\system32\cmd.exe
> > > > CommonProgramFiles(x86)=C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files
> > > > CommonProgramFiles=C:\Program Files\Common Files
> > > > CommonProgramW6432=C:\Program Files\Common Files
> > > > DEFLOGDIR=C:\ProgramData\McAfee\Endpoint Security\Logs
> > > > DriverData=C:\Windows\System32\Drivers\DriverData
> > > > EFC_13380=1
> > > > HOME=C:\Users\hoct2726
> > > > HOMEDRIVE=C:
> > > > HOMEPATH=\Users\hoct2726
> > > > INSIDE_EMACS=29.4,eshell
> > > > LINES=58
> > > > LOCALAPPDATA=C:\Users\hoct2726\AppData\Local
> > > > LOG4J_FORMAT_MSG_NO_LOOKUPS=true
> > > > LOGONSERVER=\\SAD
> > > > NUMBER_OF_PROCESSORS=6
> > > > OLDPWD=
> > > > OS=Windows_NT
> > > > OneDrive=C:\Users\hoct2726\OneDrive
> > > > PATH=c:/windows/system32;C:/windows;C:/windows/System32/Wbem;C:/windows/System32/WindowsPowerShell/v1.0/;C:/windows/System32/OpenSSH/;C:/Program
> > > > Files/Git/cmd;C:/Program
> > > > Files/R/R-4.4.1/bin/x64;C:/Users/hoct2726/AppData/Local/Microsoft/WindowsApps;.
> > > > PATHEXT=.COM;.EXE;.BAT;.CMD;.VBS;.VBE;.JS;.JSE;.WSF;.WSH;.MSC
> > > > PROCESSOR_ARCHITECTURE=AMD64
> > > > PROCESSOR_IDENTIFIER=Intel64 Family 6 Model 158 Stepping 10, GenuineIntel
> > > > PROCESSOR_LEVEL=6
> > > > PROCESSOR_REVISION=9e0a
> > > > PSModulePath=C:\Program
> > > > Files\WindowsPowerShell\Modules;C:\windows\system32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\Modules
> > > > PUBLIC=C:\Users\Public
> > > > PWD=c:/Program Files/Emacs/emacs-29.4/bin
> > > > ProgramData=C:\ProgramData
> > > > ProgramFiles(x86)=C:\Program Files (x86)
> > > > ProgramFiles=C:\Program Files
> > > > ProgramW6432=C:\Program Files
> > > > RTOOLS44_HOME=C:\rtools44
> > > > SESSIONNAME=Console
> > > > SystemDrive=C:
> > > > SystemRoot=C:\windows
> > > > TEMP=C:\Users\hoct2726\AppData\Local\Temp
> > > > TERM=dumb
> > > > TMP=C:\Users\hoct2726\AppData\Local\Temp
> > > > USERDNSDOMAIN=USHERBROOKE.CA
> > > > USERDOMAIN=USHERBROOKE
> > > > USERDOMAIN_ROAMINGPROFILE=USHERBROOKE
> > > > USERNAME=hoct2726
> > > > USERPROFILE=C:\Users\hoct2726
> > > > WSUSUpgVer=11
> > > > WSUStarget=FSCI;DInf
> > > > ZES_ENABLE_SYSMAN=1
> > > > windir=C:\windows