From spluque at gmail.com  Mon Jul  9 14:59:15 2007
From: spluque at gmail.com (Sebastian P. Luque)
Date: Mon, 09 Jul 2007 07:59:15 -0500
Subject: [Rd] packages using UTF-8 encoding
Message-ID: <874pkdn36k.fsf@patagonia.sebmags.homelinux.org>

Hi,

During a recent CRAN upload procedure, I was reminded of the following
regarding R-devel:


    o   R CMD check now warns on non-ASCII .Rd files without an
        \encoding field, rather than just on ones that are definitely
        not from an ISO-8859 encoding.  This agrees with the
        long-standing stipulation in 'Writing R Extensions', and
        catches some packages with UTF-8 man pages.

    o   R CMD check now warns on DESCRIPTION files with a non-portable
        Encoding field, or with non-ASCII data and no Encoding field.


So if we need UTF-8 encoding for the DESCRIPTION and *.Rd files, would it
be sufficient to have an "Encoding: UTF-8" line in the former and a
"\encoding{UTF-*}" in the latter?  Thanks.


Cheers,

-- 
Seb



[Rd] packages using UTF-8 encoding
Sebastian P. Luque