From spencer.graves at pdf.com  Tue Jun 27 20:01:13 2006
From: spencer.graves at pdf.com (Spencer Graves)
Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2006 11:01:13 -0700
Subject: [Rd] UTF-8 and .Rd files
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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.

	  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
Spencer Graves