[R] Hershey fonts for musical notation?

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Wed, 3 Jan 2007, Atte Tenkanen wrote:

[...]

> By the way, right now the demo(Hershey) seems not to work in OSX version R 2.4.1. ...
> I get a message
>
>> i <- i + 1
> Error in deparse(ei, control = c("showAttributes", "useSource")) :
> 	invalid multibyte string


But it does should work in R-devel, which deparses differently.  The 
issue is the use of a UTF-8 locale and the Hershey byte codes are indeed 
an invalid string in such a locale. Here is a simple example in UTF-8.

> x <- "\301"
> x
[1]Error: invalid multibyte string


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