[ESS] accent marks on windows

[Toby Hocking]

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