[Rd] scan() crash in Windows 98 (PR#3234)

[Duncan Murdoch]

On Wed, 11 Jun 2003 13:10:04 +0200 (MET DST), you wrote:

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>scan() (and so also of course read.table, read.csv etc) crashes right
>out of
>R (GUI)
>if it encounters non-ASCII characters (my particular example was a
>superscript 2
>which is OK in MS applications (even in Notepad this is OK: BMI*
>(kg/m²)).

This sounds like it might be related to the Windows FAQ 2.18, i.e. an
MSVCRT.DLL bug, though I think those were with the keyboard handler,
nothing to do with scan().  I'll be able to take a look next week on a
Win98 machine, but not in time for the 1.7.1 release, unfortunately.

Duncan Murdoch