quoted strings in foo.Rd rendered as â

First step to check: update to a released version of R 2.10.0!
I see the same behavior with:
R version 2.10.0 (2009-10-26)
x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu

locale:
  [1] LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8       LC_NUMERIC=C
  [3] LC_TIME=en_US.UTF-8        LC_COLLATE=en_US.UTF-8
  [5] LC_MONETARY=C              LC_MESSAGES=en_US.UTF-8
  [7] LC_PAPER=en_US.UTF-8       LC_NAME=C
  [9] LC_ADDRESS=C               LC_TELEPHONE=C
[11] LC_MEASUREMENT=en_US.UTF-8 LC_IDENTIFICATION=C

attached base packages:
[1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base

loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
[1] tools_2.10.0
If that does not help, using options(useFancyQuotes = TRUE) in the  
released version should (but possibly not as far back as your alpha  
pre-release).
And also with options(useFancyQuotes = TRUE)
I suspect that whatever you mean my 'my X11 window' (it is the  
application running in the window that matters, perhaps an xterm?)  
it is set to the wrong character set.  I simply use a Mac terminal  
window, and that ought to default to UTF-8 (but it can be changed,  
so check if you try one).
Yes,  I did mean xterm, and yes in a mac terminal window I do get  
correct rendering, so
maybe I should just give up on xterm entirely, but old habits die hard.
On Fri, 30 Oct 2009, Roger Koenker wrote:

Another anomaly from our rhel5 system, again sessionInfo() below.
When I'm logged in remotely via ssh from my macpro and view  
documentation
files in my X11 window,  strings in single quotes in the files are  
all
abbreviated as ? .   The same files appear fine when rendered in X11
using the local R,  and also appear fine in a terminal window on the
linux machine, so this could easily also be some sort of ssh/X11  
issue
not R at all, but if someone had any suggestion for further checking
it would be greatly appreciated.

Roger

sessionInfo()
R version 2.10.0 alpha (2009-10-09 r50012)
x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu

locale:
[1] LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8       LC_NUMERIC=C
[3] LC_TIME=en_US.UTF-8        LC_COLLATE=en_US.UTF-8
[5] LC_MONETARY=C              LC_MESSAGES=en_US.UTF-8
[7] LC_PAPER=en_US.UTF-8       LC_NAME=C
[9] LC_ADDRESS=C               LC_TELEPHONE=C
[11] LC_MEASUREMENT=en_US.UTF-8 LC_IDENTIFICATION=C

attached base packages:
[1] splines   stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets   
methods
[8] base

other attached packages:
[1] survival_2.35-7 quantreg_4.42   SparseM_0.80

loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
[1] tools_2.10.0

url:    www.econ.uiuc.edu/~roger            Roger Koenker
email    rkoenker at uiuc.edu            Department of Economics
vox:     217-333-4558                University of Illinois
fax:       217-244-6678                Urbana, IL 61801

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