[ESS] Re: [R] Strange characters in 2.1.0?

[Patrick Connolly]

On Wed, 08-Jun-2005 at 11:20AM +0200, Martin Maechler wrote:

|> >>>>> "PaCo" == Patrick Connolly <p.connolly at hortresearch.co.nz>
|> >>>>>     on Wed, 8 Jun 2005 11:31:44 +1200 writes:
|> 
|>     PaCo> On Tue, 07-Jun-2005 at 04:10PM +0200, Martin Maechler wrote:
|>     PaCo> |> >>>>> "Dan" == Dan Bolser <dmb at mrc-dunn.cam.ac.uk>
|> 
|>     PaCo> |>       ..........
|>     PaCo> |> 
|>     PaCo> |>     Dan> I have gone back to 2.0.0 :)
|>     PaCo> |> 
|>     PaCo> |> Don't do that!
|>     PaCo> |> You've lost tons of nice new features and gained quite an amount
|>     PaCo> |> of old bugs by downgrading .. 
|> 
|>     PaCo> I get the non-generic quotes to show on the screen, but they won't
|>     PaCo> print with enscript.  I end up with a lot of wrapped lines and
|>     PaCo> nonsense where an unknown character should be.
|> 
|> Why is this diverted from R- to ESS-help? 

I erroneously thought that I could see the quotes only within Emacs
and not in a terminal window, so I thought it was half way there with
Emacs but not started in a terminal.  I'll check more carefully
henceforth.

[...]

|> If I were in New Zeeland and would not need accents or umlauts,
|> I'd probably stick with latin1  (and would make sure my X
|> server got proper non-utf8 fonts) for another year or so.

Thanks for the clarification.


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