[Rd] "°" not accepted under MacOSX

[Patrick Giraudoux]

Prof Brian Ripley a écrit :
> The subject line is untrue.
>
> We recommend in 'Writing R Extensions' that you encode such characters 
> as \uxxxx sequences, in this case "\u00b0".  However, this is more 
> likely to be a locale problem on the check server, as pgirmess checks 
> out on my Mac.  In fact, the top of the log is
>
> # using R version 2.11.0 beta (2010-04-12 r51689)
> # using session charset: ASCII
> # checking for file 'pgirmess/DESCRIPTION' ... OK
> # this is package 'pgirmess' version '1.4.4'
> # package encoding: latin1
>
> and you cannot reencode latin1 to ASCII ....
>
> I don't know why you would choose to use something that makes your 
> package fail on many Japanese or Greek or Russian systems, and of 
> course in C locales.  Plotmath is portable, and these days "\u00b0" is 
> also pretty portable.
>

Thanks a lot. Strictly speaking, I did not choose:  I was just not 
familiar with \uxxxx  encoding, and will document on it now I have a 
good hint to start with...

Thanks again,

Patrick