[Rd] UTF-8 and .Rd files

[Peter Dalgaard]

Paul Gilbert <pgilbert at bank-banque-canada.ca> writes:

> I've been following this thread hoping for the definitive answer...
> 
> Peter Dalgaard wrote:
> ....
> > 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.

Just to clarify, one thing is what I feel should be the longer term
strategy, another is what the R build tools can currently do...

Did you follow the advice to declare your input encoding with
\encoding and use \enc to provide a transliteration?

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