UTF-8 and .Rd files
Spencer Graves wrote:
Hello, G?ran:
Have you considered the German solution: "Goeran"? (e.g., Wuertz
for W?rtz)?
Be thankful that you aren't Russian or Greek or Arabic or Chinese,
etc., for which there may be no standard transliteration into the Latin
alphabet.
Well, I have to live with that, being of one of the above mentioned
catergories. Where it is important to have my own name in native form
in documents, I keep around a png, a eps with postscript type 1
font embedded, and a pdf from the eps for the odd pdflatex occasions.
It is going to be very hack-ish, but I wonder if it is possible to
utilise the fact that latex comments (%) are not the same as html
comments (<!-- -->) and vice versa, to make things work.
I seems to recall somewhere in the R-extension manual about being about
to do \alternatives{latex stuff}{ascii stuff} for alternatives
which are destined to appear in different converted output types.
(Prof Ripley at this point would probably tell me the exact page
number and references...)
Hin-Tak
Sorry I can't be more helpful.
Spencer Graves
p.s. When I'm with native Spanish speakers who don't know English, I
pronounce my name very differently, like "Espencer Gra-ve", to match how
they would pronounce my name when they see it written. Similarly, I
once heard a French Canadian take about his young son, Guillaume. If
you ask him in English, "What's your name?" he replies, "Bill". If you
ask the same question in French, he replies, "Guillaume".
Hin-Tak Leung wrote:
G?ran Brostr?m wrote:
On 6/27/06, Prof Brian Ripley <ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk> wrote:
On Tue, 27 Jun 2006, G?ran Brostr?m wrote:
I have been converting to utf8 from latin1, and this gives me
problems, some solved, but here is one unsolved: In my .Rd files, I
have included '\encoding{UTF-8}' at the top. Despite this, the HTML
help pages contains 'content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"', and my
name is mangled. What can I do about this?
Reproducible example, please! (I've just tried this and it works for me.) As described in my talk at UseR 2006, you may well not want to do this if you intend to distribute the package. Your name contains characters that are not in the fonts used in UTF-8 in non-European locales, and Windows users do no have ready access to UTF-8 viewers (even if they know the files are UTF-8).
Thanks for your answer! So this means that 'latin1' does not cause
problems for non-European locales and Windows users, I take it.
I really only need non-ascii to write the name ot the author (me)
correctly. I tried LaTeX code ({\"o}), but that didn't work. Is there
a way around this?
G?ran
The \"o character in my latin1 (iso 8859-1) man page says it is 0xF6 F6 - LATIN SMALL LETTER O WITH DIAERESIS The capital version is D6 - LATIN CAPITAL LETTER O WITH DIAERESIS in html I think you need to do &#F6; or something for that character to appear? HTH HTL
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