From ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk  Sat Sep 17 09:47:34 2005
From: ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk (Prof Brian Ripley)
Date: Sat, 17 Sep 2005 08:47:34 +0100 (BST)
Subject: [Rd] Typo [Was:  Rd and guillemots]
In-Reply-To: <XFMail.050916225124.Ted.Harding@nessie.mcc.ac.uk>
References: <XFMail.050916225124.Ted.Harding@nessie.mcc.ac.uk>
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On Fri, 16 Sep 2005 Ted.Harding at nessie.mcc.ac.uk wrote:

> On 16-Sep-05 Duncan Murdoch wrote:
>> [...]
>> This seems to happen in Rdconv.pm, around here:
>>
>>      ## avoid conversion to guillemots
>>      $c =~ s/<</<\{\}</;
>>      $c =~ s/>>/>\{\}>/;
>
> The name of the "continental" quotation mark ? is "guillemet".
>
> The R Development Core Team must have had some bird on the brain
> at the time ...

I don't think any authority agrees with Ted here. There are two 
characters, left and right.  Collectively it seems agreed they are called 
guillemets, but the issue is over the names of the single characters, and 
the character shown is the left guillem[eo]t.

Adobe says these are left and right guillemot.  It seems that the 
majority opinion does not agree, but there is a substantial usage 
following Adobe.

I had already changed the R source code, so please Ted and others follow 
the advice in the posting guide and

*** check the current sources before posting alleged bugs ***

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[Rd] Typo [Was: Rd and guillemots]
Prof Brian Ripley