From b.h.mevik at usit.uio.no  Fri Dec 12 10:12:30 2014
From: b.h.mevik at usit.uio.no (=?utf-8?Q?Bj=C3=B8rn-Helge_Mevik?=)
Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2014 10:12:30 +0100
Subject: [Rd] SUGGESTION: Force install.packages() to use ASCII encoding
	when parse():ing code?
In-Reply-To: <5489E6AE.9060002@gmail.com> (Duncan Murdoch's message of "Thu,
	11 Dec 2014 13:47:10 -0500")
References: <CAFDcVCSgxuDLTLQQFg8w2m_e2CB7sn7zdRdQHjGqJc0wbueEtg@mail.gmail.com>
	<5489E6AE.9060002@gmail.com>
Message-ID: <s3s4mt11bb5.fsf@slagelg.uio.no>

Duncan Murdoch <murdoch.duncan at gmail.com> writes:

> users of other languages may want to have messages and variable names
> in their native language, and ASCII might not be enough for that.

Allowing for messages in non-ASCII encodings would probably be a good
idea, but I think allowing non-ASCII variable names is dangerous.

-- 
Regards,
Bj?rn-Helge Mevik



[Rd] SUGGESTION: Force install.packages() to use ASCII encoding when parse():ing code?
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