Problem with UTF-8 text in the Rcmdr package

The issue appears to be the Rcmdr output window and menus.  They are done 
using Tcl/Tk, not by R.  So this might be a problem in Tcl/Tk or the fonts 
it uses, or it might be problem with what Rcmdr passes to the tcltk 
package.

We need the means to reproduce this (as per the posting guide):

- what OSes are affected?  Does this occur in a UTF-8 locale on Linux, for 
example?

- in what locales?

- what versions of Tcl/Tk?  Note that shipped with Windows R 
changed between 2.5.1 and 2.7.x.

- Is this anything to do with translations?  I've not looked at how 
translations are done in Rcmdr, but if gettext() is used, the string 
passed to R for output is in the native encoding, so 'UTF-8 characters' is 
incorrect.  It is possible that it is an iconv problem if the translations 
are supplied in UTF-8 and not Latin-2.

There are far too many layers involved here to guess at what is going on.
My guess is that it ought to be possible to give a simple example of a 
string which can be output to the Rcmdr console and will be rendered 
incorrectly (together with a screen shot of how it is rendered).

I think the characters referred to are the Unicode glyphs 's and z with 
caron', \u0161 and \u017E.  It seems that these will only be displayable 
in Rcmdr on Windows in a Latin-2 locale, which I do not have set up on 
Windows (but believe I could get installed).  However, examples using that 
(and the menus) seem to be correct in both sl_SI.iso88592 and sl_SI.utf8 
on Linux, which suggests that this is probably not an R issue but a Tcl/Tk 
one.

Problem with UTF-8 text in the Rcmdr package

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