From ldimitro at wfubmc.edu  Tue Jun 27 21:51:43 2006
From: ldimitro at wfubmc.edu (Latchezar Dimitrov)
Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2006 15:51:43 -0400
Subject: [Rd] UTF-8 and .Rd files
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: r-devel-bounces at r-project.org 
> [mailto:r-devel-bounces at r-project.org] On Behalf Of Spencer Graves
> Sent: Tuesday, June 27, 2006 2:01 PM
> To: Hin-Tak Leung
> Cc: Prof Brian Ripley; r-devel at r-project.org
> Subject: Re: [Rd] UTF-8 and .Rd files
> 
> Hello, G?ran:
> 
> 	  Have you considered the German solution:  "Goeran"?  
> (e.g., Wuertz for W?rtz)?
> 
> 	  Be thankful that you aren't Russian or Greek or 
> Arabic or Chinese, etc., for which there may be no standard 
> transliteration into the Latin alphabet.

I'm thankful I'm not Spanish!

> 
> 	  Sorry I can't be more helpful.
> 
> 	  Spencer Graves
> p.s.  When I'm with native Spanish speakers who don't know 
> English, I pronounce my name very differently, like "Espencer 
> Gra-ve", to match how they would pronounce my name when they 
> see it written.  Similarly, I once heard a French Canadian 
> take about his young son, Guillaume.  If you ask him in 
> English, "What's your name?" he replies, "Bill".  If you ask 
> the same question in French, he replies, "Guillaume".
> 
> Hin-Tak Leung wrote:
> > G?ran Brostr?m wrote:
> >> On 6/27/06, Prof Brian Ripley <ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk> wrote:
> >>> On Tue, 27 Jun 2006, G?ran Brostr?m wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> I have been converting to utf8 from latin1, and this gives me 
> >>>> problems, some solved, but here is one unsolved: In my 
> .Rd files, I 
> >>>> have included '\encoding{UTF-8}' at the top. Despite 
> this, the HTML 
> >>>> help pages contains 'content="text/html; 
> charset=iso-8859-1"', and 
> >>>> my name is mangled. What can I do about this?
> >>> Reproducible example, please!  (I've just tried this and it works 
> >>> for me.)
> >>>
> >>> As described in my talk at UseR 2006, you may well not want to do 
> >>> this if you intend to distribute the package.  Your name contains 
> >>> characters that are not in the fonts used in UTF-8 in 
> non-European 
> >>> locales, and Windows users do no have ready access to 
> UTF-8 viewers 
> >>> (even if they know the files are UTF-8).
> >> Thanks for your answer! So this means that 'latin1' does not cause 
> >> problems for non-European locales and Windows users, I take it.
> >>
> >> I really only need non-ascii to write the name ot the author (me) 
> >> correctly. I tried LaTeX code ({\"o}), but that didn't 
> work. Is there 
> >> a way around this?
> >>
> >> G?ran
> > 
> > The \"o character in my latin1 (iso 8859-1) man page says it is 0xF6
> >   F6 - LATIN SMALL LETTER O WITH DIAERESIS The capital version is
> >   D6 -  LATIN CAPITAL LETTER O WITH DIAERESIS
> > 
> > in html I think you need to do &#F6; or something for that 
> character 
> > to appear?
> > 
> > HTH
> > 
> > HTL
> > 
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[Rd] UTF-8 and .Rd files
Latchezar Dimitrov