[Rd] UTF-8 and .Rd files

[Spencer Graves]

Hi, Paul:

	  Earlier in this thread, Göran Broström wrote, "I really only need 
non-ascii to write the name of the author (me) correctly."

	  The standard advice I got from a similar thread some time ago is to 
use the 'vanilla' Latin alphabet for key words, file and function names, 
etc., and restrict the use of other characters to documentation where 
the consequences of problems are not so severe.  I, too, would like to 
see all the accents, Arabic script, Chinese characters, etc., that other 
people want to use.  However, we must work with the world as it is, not 
as we would like it to be (while devoting some time where appropriate to 
making the world better, as everyone who contributes to the R Project 
does).

	  Best Wishes,
	  Spencer Graves

Paul Gilbert wrote:
> 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.
> 
> Paul
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