[R] Fancy quotes on Windows

[James W. MacDonald]

Hi,

I don't use Windows as my primary OS anymore, so didn't notice this 
until recently. In R-2.10.0 under Windows useFancyQuotes is FALSE by 
default, but this doesn't seem to affect the rendering of (text) help pages.

This is not a problem if I run via the Rgui or Rterm (via DOS prompt), 
as the help pages are rendered in a popup window that understands 
directional quotes. However, if I run under emacs/ESS, the help is 
rendered within emacs, which doesn't understand directional quotes, so 
any quoted text is surrounded by \221thetext\222, which is obviously 
difficult to read.

Is there another setting that I am missing that affects the usage of 
directional quotes for the help pages?

Thanks,

Jim


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