[Rd] UTF-8 and .Rd files

[Hin-Tak Leung]

Göran Broström wrote:
> On 6/27/06, Prof Brian Ripley <ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk> wrote:
>> On Tue, 27 Jun 2006, Göran Broström wrote:
>>
>>> I have been converting to utf8 from latin1, and this gives me
>>> problems, some solved, but here is one unsolved: In my .Rd files, I
>>> have included '\encoding{UTF-8}' at the top. Despite this, the HTML
>>> help pages contains 'content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"', and my
>>> name is mangled. What can I do about this?
>> Reproducible example, please!  (I've just tried this and it works for me.)
>>
>> As described in my talk at UseR 2006, you may well not want to do this if
>> you intend to distribute the package.  Your name contains characters that
>> are not in the fonts used in UTF-8 in non-European locales, and Windows
>> users do no have ready access to UTF-8 viewers (even if they know the
>> files are UTF-8).
> 
> Thanks for your answer! So this means that 'latin1' does not cause
> problems for non-European locales and Windows users, I take it.
> 
> I really only need non-ascii to write the name ot the author (me)
> correctly. I tried LaTeX code ({\"o}), but that didn't work. Is there
> a way around this?
> 
> Göran

The \"o character in my latin1 (iso 8859-1) man page says it is 0xF6
  F6 - LATIN SMALL LETTER O WITH DIAERESIS
The capital version is
  D6 -  LATIN CAPITAL LETTER O WITH DIAERESIS

in html I think you need to do &#F6; or something for that character to 
appear?

HTH

HTL