R-2.1.0 search engine works with mozilla browser but notfirefox

On Fri, 29 Apr 2005, Marc Schwartz wrote:

On Fri, 2005-04-29 at 13:04 -0700, Waichler, Scott R wrote:

I did find that there seems to be at least four CRAN packages:

1. PHYLOGR
2. sfsmisc
3. survrec
4. vardiag

that seem to have problems with UTF-8 locales. If I run help.start() in
my default locale of en_US.UTF-8, I get the following for each of the
above packages:

help.start()

Making links in per-session dir ...
Error in gsub(pattern, replacement, x, ignore.case, extended, fixed) :
       input string 28 is invalid in this locale

The number of the input string does change. I believe that the above
error occurs within make.packages.html().

If I change to LANG=C, the above packages do not cause problems, so
perhaps they need to be updated for R 2.1.0.

I'll drop a separate e-mail to each of the package authors above.

They have non-ASCII titles in their help files.  This issue is resolved 
for R-patched:

     o	make.packages.html() called by help.start() was failing if
 	there were installed packages with titles invalid in the
 	current locale.

However, there are further layers of incompatibility, and those will be 
dealt with in 2.2.x, as far as possible (there is no way to display German 
in a Chinese locale on Windows 98, for example).