Mac OS X 2.5.1 / reg-plot.R / tr (PR#10781)

Please do as we ask in both the FAQ and posting guide and check the 
current working copy of R, which does this differently.

In building R 2.6.2 from source for Mac OS X 2.5.1 (with
i686-apple-darwin9-gcc-4.0.1), 'make check' fails.  The failure is in
reg-plot.R, and occurs because Mac OS X's 'tr' command (invoked by Rdiff
to strip carriage returns) regards the dagger sign in reg-plot.ps as an
illegal byte sequence.

Known for certain locales: we do ask you to report yours (part of the 'at 
a minimum' information requested in the posting guide).

I'm surprised that this doesn't seem to have been reported before, but
it was already present at least in R 2.6.1

It has been, and fixed before!  From the svn logs

r44231 | ripley | 2008-01-29 12:45:00 +0000 (Tue, 29 Jan 2008) | 1 line

MacOS tr does not cope with Latin-1 chars in a UTF-8 locale

Incidentally, couldn't the handling of line endings now be left to
svn:eol-style?

Have you read the code concerned?  It says

## some packages ship .Rout.save with CRLF endings

and we have no control over what line-endings third-party packages ship 
with.

Brian D. Ripley,                  ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
Professor of Applied Statistics,  http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/
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