issue with encoding in R-2.8.1 invalid multibyte character

Yes, it was the section sign (double s) symbol that I was trying to
print connecting from a Windows machine with Latin1 encoding to a UTF-8
Linux machine.
I changed the translation behaviour in my Putty SSH from Latin1 to UTF-8
and now the interactive R programming works.
My scripts which I run with Rscript my_script.r contain quite some
Latin-1 characters. These ran ok in R2.7.0 but not any more in R2.8.1
but I presume this is because in 2.7.1 the changes made to the system
indicated 'The parser sometimes accepted invalid quoted strings in a
UTF-8 locale'. 
So this means for me I need to change the scripts I develop in Latin1 on
Windows to UTF-8 before I upload them to our server.
Thanks for the help.

-----Oorspronkelijk bericht-----
Van: Prof Brian Ripley [mailto:ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk] 
Verzonden: woensdag 31 december 2008 9:22
Aan: Peter Dalgaard
CC: Wijffels, Jan; r-help at r-project.org
Onderwerp: Re: [R] issue with encoding in R-2.8.1 invalid multibyte
character

Prof Brian Ripley wrote:

Well, we don't see what you see. but if ? was hex a7, the message is 
entirely correct.  If you want to enter that, use "\xa7".

We see different things.

Right, and my point is that we do not know what he actually sees.

I see  a section sign (double s) symbol. From the 
symptoms, I would suspect that the terminal is set to latin-1 or -15

(both

have the section sign at 0xa7) even though the system (and thus R) is

utf-8.

I thought of that, but if the system is in UTF-8, so would its keyboard 
be.  Perhaps this is a remote session from a Windows system to a UTF-8 
one? (In which case set the remote locale appropriately.)

The issue seemed to be about entering Latin characters (-1 or -9, I
think: 
latin-9 is ISO 8859-15), and that is what I tried to answer.

Brian D. Ripley,                  ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
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