[Rd] UTF-8 and .Rd files

[Paul Gilbert]

I've been following this thread hoping for the definitive answer...

Peter Dalgaard wrote:
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> Well, I do tend to think that we should just use utf, assuming that
> people have the relevant glyphs. If they don't, then they might get
> little hollow rectangles but so what? 

My problem is that I put an ö in a reference in an Rd file, and now my 
builds fail on some of my systems. I can switch which systems work and 
which are broken, but I can not get it to work on all systems. I have 
spent way too much time trying to figure out what is wrong. So, wrt "so 
what", I need to choose between checking my packages on all the 
different systems I use, or having an ö in the Rd file. I think my 
problem is more complicated than having the relevant glyphs. I suspect 
it has to do with having the same locale on all systems doing NFS 
mounts, or on my cvs server, or something strange like that.

Paul
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La version française suit le texte anglais.

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