I use "Dina" as my font and this is exactly the behavior that I see.  I
think it because the font that does not have glyphs defined for characters
221 and 222.

Kevin Wright


On Thu, Nov 5, 2009 at 2:59 PM, James MacDonald <jmacdon@med.umich.edu>wrote:

>  Hi,
>
> I am using Vincent Goulet's Windows port of emacs/ess, with R-2.10.0. The
> help pages (text help) now have a \221 or \222 instead of a ', which makes
> it difficult to read the help. For instance, from ?log:
>
> R-2.9.0
>
>  'log' computes logarithms, by default natural logarithms,  'log10'
>     computes common (i.e., base 10) logarithms, and 'log2' computes
>     binary (i.e., base 2) logarithms. The general form 'log(x, base)'
>     computes logarithms with base 'base'.
>
> R-2.10.0
>
>  \221log\222 computes logarithms, by default natural logarithms,
>  \221log10\222
>     computes common (i.e., base 10) logarithms, and \221log2\222 computes
>     binary (i.e., base 2) logarithms. The general form \221log(x, base)\222
>     computes logarithms with base \221base\222.
>
> Is this a setting I don't know about?
>
> TIA,
>
> Jim
>
>
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