[R] Sweave and accented letters

[Yihui Xie]

It might be better to post it to the LyX mailing list
(lyx-users at lists.lyx.org) since you are using LyX. Anyway, the problem
came from Sweave: you did not tell us your R version, and I suppose
you are using the latest version of R (2.14.0). There are two ways of
telling Sweave your UTF8 encoding (see ?Sweave); one of them is via
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}. In LyX, you need to set the document
encoding to "Unicode (utf8)" in Document
Settings-->Language-->Encoding. The next version of LyX (2.0.2) will
address this issue better.

Regards,
Yihui
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On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 7:21 PM, Giuseppe <neox86 at gmail.com> wrote:
> I often use Lyx/Sweave and I typically write in english.
>
> Today I had to write a document in Italian and, as many of you know,
> many italian popular words use è, ù, é. ò, etc.
>
> I discovered that if I type in Italian (that is there is at least one
> letter with accent)  with the Sweave module selected lye is not able
> to correctly compile the document.
>
> I tried to change the input encoding, but it still does not work. I am
> attaching a basic lye file that illustrates the problem.
>
>
> ========= Lyx File
>
>
> #LyX 2.0 created this file. For more info see http://www.lyx.org/
> \lyxformat 413
> \begin_document
> \begin_header
> \textclass article
> \use_default_options true
> \begin_modules
> sweave
> \end_modules
> \maintain_unincluded_children false
> \language english
> \language_package default
> \inputencoding utf8-plain
> \fontencoding global
> \font_roman default
> \font_sans default
> \font_typewriter default
> \font_default_family default
> \use_non_tex_fonts false
> \font_sc false
> \font_osf false
> \font_sf_scale 100
> \font_tt_scale 100
>
> \graphics default
> \default_output_format default
> \output_sync 0
> \bibtex_command default
> \index_command default
> \paperfontsize default
> \spacing single
> \use_hyperref false
> \papersize default
> \use_geometry false
> \use_amsmath 1
> \use_esint 1
> \use_mhchem 1
> \use_mathdots 1
> \cite_engine basic
> \use_bibtopic false
> \use_indices false
> \paperorientation portrait
> \suppress_date false
> \use_refstyle 1
> \index Index
> \shortcut idx
> \color #008000
> \end_index
> \secnumdepth 3
> \tocdepth 3
> \paragraph_separation indent
> \paragraph_indentation default
> \quotes_language english
> \papercolumns 1
> \papersides 1
> \paperpagestyle default
> \tracking_changes false
> \output_changes false
> \html_math_output 0
> \html_css_as_file 0
> \html_be_strict false
> \end_header
>
> \begin_body
>
> \begin_layout Standard
> Antoine è bella.
> \end_layout
>
> \end_body
> \end_document
>
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